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Week 7 Laws of the Game Quiz 2023-2024. A new quiz season has started and in 2024 I’ll publish some weekly quizzes again after a while not being so active. Every Tuesday a new quiz. And more stuff will be on the blog as well, with weekly fitness Fridays. Happy I am back at it now 🙂 Video for question 1 The next quiz will be published next Tuesday. You can always practise previous quizzes on this overview page. And after submitting your answers, you can see the correct answers immediately. Video is starting at 1m17s with a possible penalty incident in the penalty area of Napoli Quiz Laden… Continue reading...

FIFA referee István Kovács shares his favourite fitness exercises with the readeres of my blog. It’s a high-intensity training sessions and below he explains how it goes and why he loves it. István Kovács is a Romanian Elite referee for Uefa and he officiated the 2022 Conference League final. He also has been to several final tournaments now. Because he’s top fit, I asked him to share his favourite exercise with me. “My favorite is exercise is 10 times 400 m run”, he says. That’s one lap on the athletics track. And what is his pace? “400 m in 70 sec and 1 min recovery between each lap.” It is a HI training session and it helps me during the matches, because it keeps my heart rate high for long time. I feel never tired during the...

The Euro 2024 match officials have been announced. Below the list with referees for the European Championships in Germany. The full list with all officials can be downloaded at the Uefa website. What are the biggest surprises for you? The referees and their assistant referees Video match officials The full list with all officials can be downloaded at the Uefa website. Continue reading...