Some time ago, I decided to write a series of stories about a referee. I have written several of them, but I have decided to wait to place them online for a few reasons. I wanted to learn more about being a referee and I realized that I didn’t know as much as I’d like to about soccer history and tactics.
Anyway, this led in a roundabout way to my taking a U.S. Soccer Federation referee course. The course was a lot of fun and harder than I thought (not least because it was a two hour drive to the course.) But the good news is that I qualified! I have already refereed a few games and I will be refereeing just about every weekend this summer.
I’m not going to start blogging about refereeing, but I hope to keep writing about it. I hope you’ll read some of my posts or stories in the coming months.
–Deji Olukotun
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