After game drops: referees from Heilbronn is enough

A referee is an official, in a range of sporting activities and competitors, accountable for enforcing the policies of the sport, including sportsmanship choices such as ejection. The main tasked with this work may be recognized by a range of other titles depending upon the sporting activity, consisting of umpire, court, arbiter (chess), commissary, or technical official (by the International Olympic Board). Referees might be aided by umpires, linesmen, timekeepers, or touch judges.

The barrel has overflowed, not alone through a few drops, but basically through a whole surge. In the Baden-Württemberg Football District Hinterland, in whose center is the city of Heilbronn, three heavy incidents of violence and discrimination have caused the referees to a dramatic step: By the end of the year, no games become more of the PSV Blue / White Heilbronn, the 1, FC runs and the TGV Contract Eastern occupied. In all likelihood, all encounters 2022 are made up. We can no longer rely on the sports dishes anymore, says Marco opponent, who knows as chairman of the referee group Heilbronn and the district of Hinterland exactly what his around 180 comrades are driving on the pipe.

And that drives a lot at the moment. Everything started on the 14th of October with the district hospital game between TGV Contract Eastern and the SG Bad Wimp fen, which in the extension in favor of the SG tipped (finance 5: 2 for Bad Wimp fen). According to opponents, a Easterner played with red-stone players went on the field reference on the referee, could only be prevented with difficulty of interlacing teammates at a physical attack on the impartial. Opponents continue to tell that the player concerned has further provoked and insulted after closing whistle and also his coach had desert the referee.

Three days later, a player of the PSV Blue / White Heilbronn in the game of the Realign A1 at the SC abstract in the final phase was erased, towered onto the referee and reduced it. Episode: red and clearance.

But it is not only the physical violence that makes the referees in the Hinterland: On November 7, a player of the 1st FC Lauren II was punished in the away game against the PSV Schweitzer III in the Realign B3 after gross foul with the red card. Opponents describe that the player immediately insulted the referee racist, among other things with the Situation Nazi. Again, the referee broke off the game. In addition, the referee was still persecuted by the player to the cabin, even the police had to enter.

Sustainably traumatized

The opponent as chairman gets all the reports about such crashes and incidents on the table. And he tells that it was not simply done to make a special report on the next weekend on the sports fields of the region simply so the next game: The comrades concerned have not properly processed the incidents today, are still there Traumatized. It is questionable whether these referees want to whistle a game again.

After a videoconference, which was convened shortly after the third incident, opponents decided together with the district referee committee and representatives of the district that one must now set a sign. An sustainable, says opponent, who had come to his colleagues that the mere strike of a single game day had been quickly forgotten and, on the other, many uninvolved teams would have punished. So it was only focused on those clubs, of whose players and caregivers also went out the aggression of the recent past.

Knows out with emotions: Today s referee chairman Marco opponents, as in November 2015, served, for example, in Regionally home games of the SV Waldo Mannheim as a wizard. Imago / sport sword

The clubs did not expect that, says opponents, whose phone was no longer still quiet after the decision becomes known. 95 percent of the feedback had been agreed, but the referee chairman has also registered that the three affected clubs were rather trivialized. So Their Nominal, Board of Blue / White Heilbronn, for example, opposite the Heilbronn voice to the incident of his club: Of course that was not okay. The player has been locked, and we accept that too. Why the whole team now And the club will be punished, I do not understand. In terms of running, however, the question is why the first team will be punished for a fouling of the second team. In the respective opponents of the three punished clubs, while understanding for the referees, on the other hand feels a little innocent in joint liability.

Innocent, the TGV Contract Bernstein certainly does not feel. Nevertheless, Department Manager Wolfgang Bear says that the incident of his club does not necessarily belong to a stage with the two other excesses, as he classifies him as something harmless. Although he already understood that the referees now want to state an example, but much more displeased that his club has been asked before completed facts: We have nothing written from the referees to this day, never heard. Such a hearing, gives Bear considering, but you have when sports dish decide on game deductions. Such questions also include sports facilities, emphasizes the head of department, which is also important to emphasize that the designed players were punished internally by joining Eastern. We have a suitable internal punishment catalog, says Bear.

Incidents of this kind can not simply accept his club, after all, the TGV Contract is a multi-divisional club with a large youth department. Our players are model for our youth, says Bear. And anyway — or especially because of that — the Easterner official is not justified the collective penalty, which represents the Boycott action of the referee for him Defect, did not justify. She is even calling for us as a club, says Bear.

The fact that Blue / White Heilbronn, Eastern and Lauren were punished by the referee guild, who wants chairman opponents so do not express: This action of us is no punishment, but the sports dishes are responsible for that, on the other hand, we wanted to set a sign that we wanted us Protection of our referees is important.

From the Stuttgart headquarters of the Württemberg Football Association (AFV), however, you heard noticeable little, at least that see the Heilbronn referee so. A rather general Instagram post for more respect for referees, it was already. This has disappointed many referee colleagues, opponents describe the emotional situation on the spot and thinks that the started action will be tolerated by the unobstructed. In fact, in such a bandage, more members are active as a player or supervisor as a referee.

This must be in the event of a dot deduction up to a removal from the game operation.

Referee chairman Marco opponents about possible penalties for eye-catching clubs

Although the Heilbronn referee with her action have moved into the topic of violence, no one of the illusion that this felt is always increasing problem in the foreseeable future will be from the table. The opponent wishes that the sports dishes with hard judgments set signals. That has to go from a point deduction from a point deduction to a removal from the game operation. In addition, each club must sensitize its players that violence and discrimination on the sports field lead to serious consequences.

Bear has another idea that has come to mind with his second sporting love, the handball. If referee with yellow cards throw around, they easily come to the Redouble. If there would be two minutes of time at the second offense, this would give the same yellow-red, the whole situation would decal ate. Especially the cup game against Bad Wimp fen run out of the rudder is suitable as a prime example, because his TGV played from the 61st minute to yellow-red to tenth and the last 20 minutes of extension after a smooth-red card even neo-Neunt. On the artificial turf place at the Albert-Einstein-Straße, the mood cooked more and more high after the space.

The call for harder penalties, Bear basically communicates with opponents, but while the referees also want to take the clubs increasingly focus, sports courts in the view of the Eastern Head of Department are to pronounce the individual players or officials for their misconduct more drastic than previously punish instead of collectively.

Far beyond Heilbronn borders is becoming more and more parties to realize that any violence brings a whole sport in discredit. Whether to be pressed, pushed or blank — the already big challenge to be able to maintain the game operation with sufficient referees in the future, such incidents are not only in opponents eyes as well as being beneficial. We exercise an honorary office here, reminiscent of opponents, whose referee group reserves further, although not yet specified measures, it should come to further attacks on its comrades in the future.

Incidents, which a club functional like Bear of course does not want to see. Nobody wants insults and disruptions. Therefore, if in a few weeks the excitement about the action of the Heilbronn referee has laid something that it is then a round table with clubs, district and referee representatives. Such a dialogue was already in our own interest as a club, says Bear. After all, young people and their parents look exactly how a large and lively sports club like the TGV Contract Eastern deals with the sensitive topic violence and discrimination.