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Officiating at the 2022 World Cup, VAR, time-keeping and diversity
Soccer America Confidential, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, December 9, 2022
In their second World Cup, VARs are getting used to the syste ...
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Officiating at World Cup 2022, a first look
Soccer America Confidential, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, December 6, 2022
There's been a drop in the yellow cards and red cards ov ...
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The past and the future of the VAR application
Soccer America Confidential, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Recently, there are some harsh criticisms of the VAR system. Is t ...
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Good person, good citizen, good player
Youth Soccer Insider, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, September 6, 2022
For parents and coaches, there should be another goal other than tryi ...
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Soccer refereeing and artificial intelligence
Soccer America Daily, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, July 26, 2022
AI and technology can help us to alleviate some errors in critic ...
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Youth soccer's Bermuda Triangle
Youth Soccer Insider, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Youth soccer's Bermuda Triangle sucks up the beauty and fairness of t ...
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Pay to play and beyond
Soccer America Daily, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, May 14, 2022
There is no such thing as free soccer. But how do ...
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The three pillars of refereeing
Soccer America Daily, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, April 2, 2022
Refereeing organizations should look for personality traits like leadership and courage ...
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USMNT and the development of elite players, the last words
Soccer America Daily, Ahmet Guvener - Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Why does the USA export so few men's players, given its siz ...
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USMNT and the development of elite players -- Professional leagues (Part II)
Soccer America Daily, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, February 1, 2022
How do you expand and enhance the men's pro leagues, both quantitative ...
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USMNT and the development of elite players -- Professional Leagues (Part 1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Monday, December 27, 2021
Clearly, there is room for expanding the number of professional teams. T ...
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USMNT and the development of elite players -- what's next?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, November 18, 2021
The first step is to understand that there is a need f ...
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USMNT and the development of elite players
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The basic dilemma for the MNT is that we want to compre ...
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Soccer's unwritten LOTG, like it or not, they are here to stay
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, September 4, 2021
These unwritten LOTG have existed for a long time but only recent ...
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Officiating in Euro 2020: an expert's view
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Wednesday, August 4, 2021
The Euros were a case study in how referees are picked a ...
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Refereeing education: The present and the future (Part 2)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Modern-day officiating requires the use of technology, data and statistics in t ...
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Refereeing education: The present and future (Part 1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, June 5, 2021
The first step to reforming our soccer refereeing educational system is f ...
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Standardizing subjective decisions
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Monday, May 10, 2021
Everyone should focus on the "spirit of the Game "and "what footba ...
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Two MNTs and player development
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
The U.S. and Turkish national teams share similar makeups and tell ...
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Pendulum, the delicate matter of soccer's 'handball' offense
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, March 13, 2021
Why IFAB decided to swing the pendulum that was in the equilibri ...
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Pandemic's impact on soccer
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Wednesday, February 10, 2021
With few or no fans in the stands, early data suggests t ...
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Refereeing and statistics
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, January 14, 2021
An entire industry has arisen around data and video analysis of player ...
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Some proposals for professional soccer officiating
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Identification of bench personnel? Restoring time lost due to implementing VAR protocol ...
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Our youth clubs and their development (Part 2)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Monday, November 23, 2020
Once youth soccer boards realize they are running a sports business wi ...
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Our youth clubs and their development -- very fertile ground in need of nurturing and care
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, October 29, 2020
it's taken the pandemic to accelerate our collective understanding that many sma ...
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The new handball offense and the havoc It caused
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
IFAB/FIFA should make this law simpler and less arguable. The way ...
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A revisit to the VAR concept and its application (Part 2)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
One of the major criticisms of the system is that at tim ...
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A revisit to the VAR concept and its application (Part 1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Monday, August 24, 2020
For the skeptics of the VAR concept and technology, there is b ...
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Mindhunter, behavioral science as applied to modern-day refereeing
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Sunday, August 2, 2020
A referee's whistle and cards are not sufficient to control the ga ...
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Mindhunter, behavioral science as applied to modern-day refereeing
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Sunday, July 12, 2020
The first step is to understand that the letter of the LO ...
