The 2012 AYSO Section Meetings are designed for every volunteer and will include training, certification, and continuing education for Coaching, Refereeing and Management along with annual updates for all AYSO programs and new leadership training sessions. The 2012 Section Meeting them is “The AYSO Experience” and the entire weekend will focus on creating the best AYSO experience for volunteers, players and families.

Section Meetings will also include all the fun stuff … the sponsor & vendor show, meeting up with old friends and making new ones, meals together and perhaps a surprise or two. Share ideas, stories and your love of kids and soccer with other AYSO volunteers just like you. Don’t miss your AYSO Section Meeting!

You can find this item and all other AYSO referee manuals through the AYSO training materials portal.

Once you enter the portal (with an AYSO volunteer ID number), you will find the referee manuals on the referee page.

You can also order hard copies by contacting the AYSO supply center at (888) 243-AYSO or sending an email to supplycenter@ayso.org.

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As to permissions to copy and/or distribute, this is how it is stated in the LOTG publications:

Authorised by the International Football Association Board
This booklet may not be reproduced or translated in whole
or in part in any manner without the permission of FIFA.
Published by Fédération Internationale de Football Association
FIFA-Strasse 20, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland

and

Autorizadas por el International Football Association Board
Reproducción o traducción completa o parcial solo con
la autorización expresa de la FIFA.
Publicadas por la Fédération International de Football Association
FIFA-Strasse 20, 8044 Zúrich, Suiza

- Assessor candidates who need to complete ‘over the shoulder’ assessments

- Advanced Referee candidates who need to complete their assessments

AYSO Region 2B249 (San Bruno, CA) hosts the 21st annual Turkey Tournament this Nov. 26, 27.

This tournament is held at various fields in and near San Bruno, CA.

Steve Jacobs, Section 2 Dir. of Referee Assessment is coordinating assessors (senior and candidates), and mentors.

Mike Baldonado, tournament referee administrator, is coordinating/scheduling referee assignments.

Please share the attached file with our referee community.

It has the latest direction from USSF for the process Kicks from the Penalty Mark.
The document compiles related information from different sources including the Laws of the Game,
FIFAs Interpretations and Guidelines, USFF Advice to Referees, and earlier USSF memoranda.

Thank you.

Thomas Bobadilla
National Referee Program Administrator
American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO)

Learn more about the 2012 National Games

Sign up to referee at the 2012 National Games

A volunteer can enter the aysotraining.org portal using his or her AYSO volunteer ID number. You will find this publication under the selections for -Manuals- for -Referees-.

Although AYSO requires a login to access the download site, the copyright assertion is generous:

All rights reserved. © 2010 American Youth Soccer Organization
Reproduction in whole or in part is encouraged provided no changes are made to content and the “2010-2011 Referee Mentor/Advisor Handbook” is referenced.

[ click HERE for a related notice from  National Safe Haven Administrator Karen Mihara et al ]

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The new Safe Haven course becomes effective today August 1, 2011.

All disciplines will now take the same Safe Haven course. There is no distinction in the current course between Referee, Coach, and Management disciplines. One course, one certification.

In eAYSO, a volunteer’s Safe Haven certification now shows up under the Management tab in the Volunteer Information Certification page.

In order to teach the new Safe Haven course, you need to take it first. Two easy options:

Webinar – http://www.ayso.org/training/webinars/ayso_safe_haven.aspx

Online – http://www.aysotraining.org (you will need your AYSO volunteer ID  number)

Safe Haven courses must be registered separately from a referee class (e.g. there will be no more Basic with Safe Haven course). You will need two separate rosters to accomplish this: one roster for Safe Haven and another roster for the Referee course. If you have already registered a Ref-Course-with-Safe-Haven you will need to cancel that roster and to create two new rosters.

The Safe Haven course is actually listed as AYSOs Safe Haven so look under “A” and not “S” when you do a Course Lookup in eAYSO.

The Safe Haven lesson plan can be found at http://www.ayso.org/instructors/aysos_safe_haven.aspx

Safe Haven certifications under the old curriculum remain valid. Note that a volunteer with (only) Referee Save Haven certification is not Safe Haven certified as a coach. Take the current course to upgrade to coach Safe Haven certification.

Registration and other camp information is here: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=950612

—–ANNOUNCEMENT—–

NEW COURSE ADDITION JUST IN TIME FOR GOLDEN GATE CAMP

We are excited to announce that Tom Bobadilla will be joining us again this year!

As the National Organization continues to offer educational opportunities for all of us, as “Volunteers”, we at Golden Gate Camp are among the first to receive the:

NEW Session for Current Certified Instructors

This session for current instructors from all disciplines offers an opportunity to re-energize, learn additional skills, build up confidence through teamwork & support while sharing with fellow instructors.

Since Tom joined AYSO, it has been his desire to share his knowledge and  experience with our volunteers in fun and practical sessions.

Tom brings with him a Masters in Business Education, 20+ years experience in conducting training for instructors and management leaders, for the United States Soccer Federation and former employers.

Please join us for this session which is intended to be a fun, value-added experience for instructors across all disciplines.

The new unified AYSO Safe Haven program officially rolled out July 1, 2011.

A few quick ‘must knows’ here at the top of the message, followed by other great stuff:

- There is only one Safe Haven curriculum. It applies to all disciplines (referee and coach, in particular).

- To be a/the lead instructor for the new Safe Haven course, you first have to become certified to do so.  If you are/were certified to teach the ‘old’ course, you (just) need to complete taking the new course as a student in order to update your instructor certification. Clear?

- AYSO offers fabulous opportunities to take the course (for credit) as a Webinar in July. Your webinar course leaders are Karen Mihara, our AYSO National Safe Haven Administrator, and Tom Bobadilla, our AYSO National Referee Administrator. Schedule and other information is available on our AYSO National website here:  http://www.ayso.org/training/webinars/ayso_safe_haven.aspx 

Tom is teaching in Spanish, Karen in English.

- AYSO “press release” is here

http://www.ayso.org/news/11-06-23/Introducing_the_New_AYSO_Safe_Haven_Course-_One_Size_Fits_All.aspx

- Our Section 2 Director of Referee Instruction, Holly Bromley, can assist you with any questions/issues about this program. You can reach her at (jhbholly at aol dot com)   The transition period between courses is (just) this month of July. Some of you may already have courses scheduled for this month and want/need to use the ‘old’ curriculum. Holly can advise…

- (New) lesson plan is available at http://www.ayso.org/instructors/aysos_safe_haven.aspx

- The (new) Safe Haven training is available online at http://www.aysotraining.org/aysosafehaven.html

- Safe Haven certifications under the old curriculum remain valid. Note that a volunteer with -only- Referee Save Haven certification is not Safe Haven certified as a coach. Take the current course to ‘upgrade’ to coach.

- The last nugget in this message is: Be advised that Safe Haven training/certification is required for all referee volunteers. Yes, this includes youth referee volunteers.  It is worth repeating:

All youth referee volunteers are required to be Safe Haven trained and certified.

- If you have read this far, you are indeed a dedicated volunteer. Thank you!

4 July 2011

TM, SRA2

(sra (at) section2 dot org)

You can download the file at this link on this page.

USSF has published a Memorandum on the Law Changes for 2011/2012.  If you can’t find it easily by a web search for “USSF 2011 Memorandum of Law Changes”, let me know.

AYSO will soon (!) catch up with an AYSO/FIFA Laws of the Game publication for 2011/2012. In the meantime, you know the drill.