Added: 02/24/2006 |
Famous Soccer Referees and Their Impact on the GameSoccer referees are very important in the soccer game. Their work is not to violate the game rules. There are some famous soccer referees like Ken Aston and Urs Meier. Nowadays nobody can imagine the modern football without yellow and red cards. They were created by Ken Aston thirty five years ago.
Ken Aston was born on the ninth of January in 1915 in Colchester. He worked forty four years in the education field, including his experience as a school teacher. In the war years he served in the British Army. He became a soccer referee in 1936. He was a referee of the World matches. After the finish of the referee carrier (1963) since 1966 till 1970 he had been a chairman of the referee commission of FIFA.
And in this field he showed himself as a creative man. He confirmed a modern design of the soccer referees clothes. So, referees are called "men in black". He developed the conception of the fourth arbiter. He changed the flag of the side referee in order to make it more noticeable. He was the first who organized the first seminars for arbiters in order to approve the rules. At last he created cards.
The brightest fragments of his life Aston told in his biography: "Do you know that I was the only referee in the world who worked during the match with a helmet". In 1940 during the war he worked during the game at the factory. He had to stop the game because of bombing.
After the last final of the England's Cup he got a golden medal from the Queen's hands. He loved Cup's matched most of all. "In August many teams from towns begin to choose each other according to the "play-off" system. In November professional clubs join them. It is a bright sight when a team from a town plays with "Manchester United". And there are forty five thousand people in this match. Sometimes such games lead to a sensation result and a team from a town is called "giant killer".
But there is the most important question "How did Aston create cards" During the World Championship in 1966 there was a difficult situation for referees. It was a game England-Argentina. The referee was German Craitlayt who didn't understand anything except for his language. So, some misunderstandings appeared. Next morning brothers Charltons got to know that they had got warning. They called the organizers and one confirmed that it was truth.
"I knew about this case. On that day on my way home I was going through the crossroads, but I didn't manage - the yellow light began to light, then the red one. It happened three times. When I was on the third crossroads the idea came to my head - there is a way to avoid language problems! It was the idea about cards." In a week it became popular over the world.
Ken Aston died in October in 2001.
Thus, any soccer game is impossible without soccer referees. Some of them are very famous, for example, Ken Aston. He was a creative man and he invented some things which are used nowadays and the soccer can't take place. He invented red and yellow cards. He did it occasionally. He invented yellow and red cards only in 1970, but many people think that they have always existed in the soccer. He changed the design of the referee clothes. Nowadays his design is used for referee clothes. So, it is impossible to imagine a full picture of the soccer without Kan Aston.
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