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Within the development of sporting careers, there are several studies that show the importance of inner and contextual factors. According to several patterns, this development is associated with a long, ongoing and deliberate process. But in what concerns football referee, research on the topic is scarce. The aim of our study was to identify recognised factors to sustain excellence in football referee, exploit training conditions and the Portuguese football referee’s professional career development. Five semi-structured interviews were carried out with football referees and former referees who reached the category of international in football or futsal, adopting a transversal retrospective design. Results show that: a referee of excellence needs to gather a set of personal cognitive, physical and socioemotional skills; the significant interventions of the Portuguese Football Federation in what concerns training and positioning of the referees’ career, with the introduction of a National Training Plan and the amendments on the Football referee Regulation has had an impact on the geographical distribution of the referees from national frameworks and has contributed to the meteoric rising of some members; it isn’t ensured a training process in equal conditions to all the country’s referees in lower classes.
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Football referee Excellence Career Training
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Mendes, S., Travassos, B., & Oliveira, E. P. (2019). Establishing “excellence” in the Portuguese football referee. Motricidade, 15 (S1), 161. doi: http:// dx.doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.16967 [Abstract - International Congress CIDESD 2019]