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Question Number: 17475Other 10/23/2007RE: High School Mike of Pittsburgh, PA USA asks...This question is a follow up to question 16799 This is not so much a question, but more of a statement regarding questions 16755 & 16799. As a WPIAL/PIAA referee, I also ref games under the jurisdiction of USSF, we are not instructed to judge offside any differently than we are in USSF. There is a deficiency of referees in certain areas, which leads to some referees doing the games that are more affluent in other sports such as hockey, football, basketball, etc. The person writing question 16755 may have just ran across a referee that doesn't understand the concept of offside in the game of soccer/futbol. Answer provided by Referee Chuck Fleischer What you write just lends credence to this statement. The training of NFHS referees assigned to high school matches is woefully inadequate. NFHS claims to be the national organization for soccer, so does NCAA and so does US Soccer. Therein lies the problem, there is NO one national organization for Association Football in the Unites States. That is a crime.
If NFHS, NCAA and US Soccer can't realize it, there is where the blame for inadequate referees shall fall. No one is responsible, that means no one needs to care. Long live rule by committee...
Here, we care!
Regards,
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