Federation International of Football Association and All India Football Federation jointly conducted the five-day Women Referee course at laxmibai National University of Physical Education.
The course is for International and top referees of the country and the upcoming women referees. This course was divided into three segments Fitness, Technical and Psychological aspects.
Various activities were conducted during the course such as flag technique, Offside, different movements on the line for Assistant Referee and Positioning, movements, penalty area situation and their management, team work between referee and importance of referees positioning, counter attack situations and how the AR’s can assist the referees in a best way during the game. AFC Coach Narendra and KK Sahu have extended their support for entire course.
The referees had been taught about the Severity of fouls, handball, offside, positioning, tactical fouls, team work, match management and modern football demands from the referees.
FIFA instructor Christina told that the women competitions are also growing in India, nowadays and women referees will keep moving forward in the way of success.
Christina said, “We can proudly say that one of our women FIFA Assistant Referee, Uvena Fernandes has created a history after being a part of FIFA U-17 World cup Final Match.”
University’s Vice-Chancellor Dilip Durah was the Chief Guest of the closing ceremony of the event. lNUPE Registrar Vivek Pandey was the Special guest during the closing ceremony.
KK Sahu welcomed all the participants and guests of the programme. Vice-Chancellor Professor Dilip Durah has expressed gratitude for the guests and to the FIFA and AIFF.
Durah said that this type of course for the women is very important and constructive for them.
AIFF Pratap Singh Patwal showed gratitude to the VC Durah and lNUPE Registrar Vivek Pandey for providing all the facilities during these five day Women Referee course and for supporting the event.
Patwal said that lNUPE is the best sports institution of Asia. lNUPE VC Durah distributed the certificates to all the participants. Registrar of lNUPE, Vivek Pandey said, “We are always ready to welcome this kind of courses in our Institution and in future too, we will complete our duty and provide all the best possible facilities towards these courses.”