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Professional Referee Organization (PRO) is the organization responsible for managing the referee and assistant referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada, working alongside the United States Soccer Federation, Major League Soccer, the Canadian Soccer Association, the United Soccer League, the National Women's Soccer League, and the U.S. Open Cup.
The 2024 MLS referee lockout was a labor dispute between the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), the organization responsible for assigning and managing referees and other match officials for Major League Soccer, and match officials represented by the Professional Soccer Referees Association (PSRA), a labor union for professional match officials in Canada and the United States.
A pair of officials at a Maryland high school football game in September 2008. White knickers used to be worn by officials; black trousers are now standard.. For ease of recognition, officials are usually clad in a black-and-white vertically striped shirt and black trousers with a thin white stripe down the side (this was formerly white knickers with black/white striped stirrup stockings or ...
The USL Championship has expanded almost three-fold since its first season in 2011 to include 35 teams in the 2020 season, with the league divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. The USLC is the world's largest Division II professional league by number of teams. Since 2014, valuation of USL Championship clubs have increased five-fold.
The Copa América is being played at 14 stadiums across the U.S. as the country deals with a nationwide heat wave. More than half of 14 venues are open-air, outdoor stadiums.
Robert (Bob) Evans (1939 - 2016) was a Welsh-American soccer player, coach, and referee, author, and research geologist who represented the United States Soccer Federation (now "U.S. Soccer") as an international referee from 1980 to 1988. [1]
O'Neill was an assistant referee in the UEFA Women's Champions League, refereeing nine Champions League matches between 2011 and 2019. [ 5 ] O'Neill began her career as an international match referee in 2013 with a 2015 World Cup qualifying match between the Netherlands and Albania , [ 6 ] running the line for six matches in these qualifications.
Later, the referee, a third "neutral" official was added; this referee would be "referred to" if the umpires could not resolve a dispute. The referee did not take his place on the pitch until 1891, when the umpires became linesmen (now assistant referees). Today, in many amateur football matches, each side will still supply their own partisan ...