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                                                           Game Day Procedures 

      The link below to the GVSA game day procedures you must follow in order to minimize pregame problems. It also contains the modifications for the age groups in the Grand Valley Soccer Association. Keep your most challenging situations for the game- don't get exasperated before the game! If you have any suggestions, contact John Corbett or Jack Wolf.


       Game Day Procedures and necessary information for referees are located at their respective links at
www.gvsoccer.org.



GVSA LEAGUE PROCEDURES:

CLUB PLAYERS IN MSPSP GAMES:
1)   
Club passcarded players will be permitted to play in MSPSP league games. They will not be on the original roster, but their names must be handwritten on the game sheet. Club players will have a passcard for a younger or alternative club team. The guest club player must have a passcard from the same club. Prior to check-in ask coaches/team managers if they have club passcarded players. Remember: even with the club players, there are only 18 eligible participants for each match. The referee should cross out a name on the original roster for every club passcarded player that participates in that match. An injured, rostered player may sit on the bench but may not wear the team uniform colors.

2.
  
Teams may have a maximum of 3 club passcarded players per MSPSL match.

3.  A club passcarded player may only passcard up two age groups from their team age group listed on their club passcard.
 

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ADVICE TO NEW REFEREES- good advice and suggestions about what you should do and how to do it. Click on the link below.

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THE SUBSTITUTION PROCEDURE FOR ALL GVSA SELECT GAMES U13 AND ABOVE (11v11) is:

When the referee stops play for a substitution, the substitute is no longer allowed to enter the field of play before the player has left the field of play. The substitute must delay entry onto the field of play until the player has left the field of play.

The AR must get to the midline to supervise the procedure, and return to the second-to-last defender prior to the restart. 





USSF LAWS, ADVICE, MEMOS, et al:


Quoted from www.ussoccer.com -> laws of the game -> you make the call -> #7.

Answer posted 12-18-08.

“REFEREE DISCRETION

Question:
What discretion, if any, does the referee have in deciding to call a foul as a dangerous play, which results in an indirect free kick, versus a reckless/careless foul, which results in a direct free kick. For example, a player carelessly raises his cleat too high, interfering with an opponent, versus the cleat making the slightest contact with an opponent, versus the cleat making solid contact with an opponent. What about a slide tackle that is whistled because it was careless under the circumstances, but not so dangerous as to warrant a direct free kick, according to the referee? Is there discretion under all circumstances of dangerous play and fouls/misconduct?

Answer (December 17, 2008):
We always encourage referees to use their discretion in making any call, based on the factors that went into making the decision in the first place. However, too many referees blur the lines between the various fouls, particularly the clear difference between playing dangerously and committing a direct-free-kick foul. In most cases this is done because the referee doesn't want to appear too harsh or, much worse, because the referee is afraid to call a foul a foul. How many referees have you seen who say that the same foul they would have called a direct-free-kick foul at midfield is not a penalty-kick-foul when committed in the penalty area? They then chicken out and call it dangerous play, depriving the offended team of a fully justified penalty kick.

You have to make the decision and stick with it. The offense in this case is not simply against the Laws of the Game, but against the whole tradition and spirit of the game. “

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Link to 2013-2014 Laws of the Game:

      http://www.usrefereeconnection.com/#!lotg/c36v

to 2008-2009 Guide to Procedures and Advice to Referees on the LOTG:
 
      http://www.usrefereeconnection.com/#!__linksdownloads
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extra_persons_on_the_field_position_paper.pdf
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Click on this link for the 7+7 Offenses (caution + ejection)
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This link is to the Advice to Referees on the Laws of the Game.
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