Talk of Officials
11:34 AM
Ellis
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11:34 AM Ellis 5 Comments
One of the most integral aspect of sports that can determine the outcome of most matches is officiating. Basketball is one of the most vulnerable sports where a referees' decisions can affect the true outcome of a game (remember the Tim Donaghy case in the NBA?).
Last season and many seasons before that, the Accra L's referees have constantly suffered from accusations of not knowing their job, not being current or being out-rightly biased towards some teams. There was another instance when the L was in full flight and had to be put on pause for almost a month because the same referees had to go officiate at the GUSA games. One may ask why am writing this piece at this time when folks are more concerned about when the L is starting. It's definitely not to provide results because we at RGH are not basketball officiating experts. It's rather to ask a couple of questions which we all hope and wish to get answers to soon.
The question came as a result of reading a poorly written English article on the FIBA-Afrique website while skimming through my daily dose of basketball news online. It was news of some African officials having been appointed to officiate at this year's U-19 world championship in Latvia. It read:
The list of African officials who will participate at the World Championships U19 Men and Women 2011. For the men's competition will take place from June 30 to July 10, 2011 in Latvia, two referees and one commissioner have been retained. They are: Naftal Candido CHONGO (Mozambique) and Samir ABAAKIL (Morocco) as referees, and Essowenaza Bivaina Goungou of Togo as Technical Commissioner. For the ladies competition, Heba El Hadidy (Egypt), and for Ndeye Aissatou(Senegal) as referees and Mrs Justine Kawanga IRUNG from Democratic Republic of Congo as Technical Commissioner. Maybe you could have been able to come up with a couple of questons already while reading that. But mine , and I know several other members of the Ghana basketball family might share the same are;
- what are our officials doing wrong?
- how can we get more officials?
- who's supposed to teach them?
- will they ever get to be considered to officiate at the international level?
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