The main sources of stress that result in the fear that the referees have of the consequence of his decisions. If the anxiety levels are high, the referees’ ability to focus in the games’ important clues (ball movement and players’ behaviour) decreases. In this way they reduce their ability to analyze the ball movements and those of the players. This is happened yesterday in Catania-Juventus, when the referees have spent almost a minute to talk to each other before making a decision. It is no coincidence that the main-referee Gervasoni has accepted the decision of another colleague which he is an international referee, Rizzoli, for this role must have been regarded as more competent to decide than himself.
Basically if the referees does wrong call for the stress generated by the fear of making mistakes, unfortunately for them this attitude will not change from game to game. Not just the usual scolding of the chief of referees or to see the video of the errors. It’s a matter of mentality that only an adequate program of psychological preparation of these referees could teach, in order to increase the belief in their choices. The referees are afraid of the amplification of their mistakes by media and teams, as it determines the depreciation of themselves. It is not a problem that it is resolved by replays or by multiplying the number of umpires on the field, they have to improve their minds but I think this is the last thing that referees and their managers will talk about in their meetings.
sante parole prof Cei. Ma le stesse federazioni sono miopi sotto questo aspetto, o forse ci giocano, nel preparare gli arbitri.