Goa Football Association to promote refereeing

PANAJI: The

Goa Football Association

hopes to strengthen their pool of active

referees

from 115 to 300 in order to meet the number of matches conducted in a calendar year.

The Referees Committee will organize a series of Referees

Entrance

Programme courses starting from Saturday at the Nehru Stadium in Fatorda. A total of 25 referees have confirmed their participation but no women in the list as yet.

“GFA has done a lot of work for players and coaches and now the focus has turned to refereeing. Refereeing can be considered a career today and there are a lot of opportunities in the Indian Super League and I-League,” GFA president

Elvis Gomes

said during a press briefing in the city on Friday.

The association conducts over 1,000 official matches, besides another 1,000 matches in recognized Inter-Village tournaments.

“Since colleges have recently started, we are also approaching the students to take up refereeing. We will first teach them the 17 Laws of the Game in the two-day theory sessions which will be followed by practicals,” said match commissioner Anthony John D’Costa.

The referees are currently paid a minimum of Rs 300 per game and it gets higher as per the level of competition.
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