{"id":318545,"date":"2016-02-11T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/referees-attend-refresher-course\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:32:09","slug":"referees-attend-refresher-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/11\/referees-attend-refresher-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Referees attend \u2018Refresher\u2019 Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\" readability=\"35.571087216249\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Soccer News of Wednesday, 10 February 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>sportscrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2016-02-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Referees-attend-\u2018Refresher\u2019-Course.jpg\" alt=\"Referees@kumasi\" title=\"Referees@kumasi\" width=\"250\" height=\"286\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A Team of Referees<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Retired FIFA referee L.O. Laryea has revealed the programme line-up for referees by the Referee Association of Ghana (RAG) as the commencement to the 2015\/16 season league season gathers pace.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian referees have been questioned and doubted in relation to their competence to officiate in games as many believe their decisions in some games brings the name of the beautiful game into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>RAG rated referees performance in the First Capital Plus Premier League (FCPPL) 2014\/14 season as a very good one and as an association do not want to see a decline in the performance of their members.<\/p>\n<p>Former RAG chief, L.O. Laryea marked referees performance as above average and asserts the refresher course does not connote the officials are poor but rather an avenue to build on a very good performance and avoid more criticism from football fans and the ever vocal Ghanaian media.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI can guarantee the referees are ready for the league start the delay has distorted our programme slightly but should the league commence tomorrow we are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the teams prepare and finalise in readiness for the 2015\/16 league season, we as the officials are ready \u2013 the association (RAG) has organised a two-week refresher course as \u2018the men in black\u2019 try to limit the number of errors that seem to align to Ghanaian referees,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015\/16 Ghanaian premier league starts on Feb 20.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 28 updated by: 6 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Soccer News of Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Source: sportscrusader.com 2016-02-10 A Team of Referees Retired FIFA referee L.O. 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Ghanaian referees have been questioned and doubted in relation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Referees attend \u2018Refresher\u2019 Course - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/11\/referees-attend-refresher-course\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Referees attend \u2018Refresher\u2019 Course - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Soccer News of Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Source: sportscrusader.com 2016-02-10 A Team of Referees Retired FIFA referee L.O. 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