Please be aware that there has been an amendment to the Feb. 2005 FIFA ruling the "you must touch the ball in order to be called offside"
You now can be called offside prior to touching the ball :
"A player in an offside position may be penalized before playing or touching the ball if, in the opinion of the referee, no other team-mate in an onside position has the opportunity to play the ball"
"if an opponent becomes involved in the play and if, in the opinion of the referee, there is potential for physical contact, the player in the offside position shall be penalized for interfering with an opponent
Soccer Referees Niagara Web site is being updated to 1024 pixels wide, to go with the trend of higher resolution screens. So, fr the next while you may find screens formated at 800 pixels wide and some at 1024. The are over 60 screens to update on this web site, so this may take a while. Thank you for your patience....web admin
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RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at
innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer.
Quite possibly the most prestigious award in Canada that one could receive in the Soccer world, is the Canadian Soccer Asscoiation Award of Merritt.
The award which is handed out yearly to persons nonimated by the provincial bodies (Ontario Soccer Assoication) for :
"recognition of outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the sport of soccer in Canada at the Provincial and National Levels"
For the first time, the honor of this award has been handed out to an individual here in the Niagara Region. This years recipient is Mary Dunleavy of the Niagara Soccer Association (NSA).
The award was presented to Mary at a ceremony on May13th honoring some of the countries finest.
What most people do no know, is that Mary also received a similar disctintion at the Provincial level just two years ago.
Congratulations Mary on this most derseving honor.
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I know, your thinking, Soccer referees to wear hemets ? No, not at all, but we do have to think of how our younger and not so young referees get to games. If you use a bike to get to a game, please remember, it is the law for persons 16 and under to wear a
Helmets
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helmet while cycling. For those of you over the age of 16, it's just plain smart if you wear a helmet. We have recently had a tradegy of a young 18 year boy who lost his life here in Niagara from a cycling accident. Unfortunately, he was not wearing a helmet nor did he have any lights on his bike which is also the law. Please keep safe while riding your bike wether it's too and from games or simply for recreation.
