A match commissioner and referee assessor education course run by the all India Football Federation commenced at Football House in the capital on Wednesday. The two-day affair aims at improving the standard of refereeing ahead of the I-League.
AIFF general secretary Kushal Das inaugurated the seminar. “This is an important step towards perfection of refereeing decisions on the football pitch. I hope that the next few days will be productive.” Das said.
Eighteen match commissioners are taking part in the seminar.
Head of referees Goutam Kar, who is conducting the course stressed on the challenges ahead. “The seminar is aimed at taking match operations to a higher level,” Kar said.
“We intend to focus on match operations and will take into account every detail of a game. Also included will be media operations, broadcasting, marketing and overall visibility of AIFF events,” he added.
List of match commissioners present: Mrinal Roy, R.D. Show, J Ravishankar, Rizwan Ul Haq, J.S. Nagvenkar, Gulab Chauhan, Sagar Sen, Sumanta Ghosh, Gopinath Pyne, Supriya Bhattacharya, Binod Kumar Singh, Inayethulla Khan, A. Mamukoya, C.M. Ramesh Babu, S. Suresh, P Basker, J.P. Singh, Walter Pereira, Dhanraj More