Out Of Bounds In Soccer

During the soccer unit I made many calls including: offsides, out of bounds, hand ball, pushing, and goal. The call that occurred most often was out of bounds, which happened about 5 times throughout my refereeing experience. Out of bounds was the easiest call to make because you can see it happen from many directions, and it is not really a judgement call. The hardest call to make was the offsides penalty. This was the hardest because I was unfamiliar with the rule. It was also hard to make offsides calls because it can be a judgement call, and sometimes you are focusing on the ball handler and it is easy to miss an offsides call. It is much easier to call out of bounds because you are watching the ball and you can usually see if it went out. …show more content…
I missed some hand ball calls because when you are far from the player that commits the foul, or he has his back to you, it can be hard to see where the ball makes contact. I found that it was very beneficial to have one of more referees along side me. Games had better calls when there were several referees because they could see more of the court/field. I have refereed games by my self, and sometimes it was difficult to keep up with the play and see all of the calls. For example, one day when I was refereeing, I was running by the ball and was focusing on the ball handler. Because of this, I missed several offsides calls. Over my refereeing experience, I saw a lot of contact between players. There were many times when I saw players push each other or make contact, and I didn't make a call because it did not affect the play or it helped the team of the player that was fouled. I also did not make calls when the contact was equal between both players and neither got an advantage from