The Competence of Professional Behavior as a Determinant of the Effectiveness of the Football Referees of the Iraqi Professional League in Southern Iraq

Abstract

The success of the game of football depends on all elements, including the players and the referees, and the great role played by the referee has a special and distinct importance in the process of organizing and controlling the course of any match, regardless of its identity. The ruling in an era of sport was nothing but a symbol of justice, carrying an obelisk of a clearly defined and dimensioned law and framed by controls and legislation that made it the judicial authority, which has the decisive word inside the green rectangle. Since the game depends on the immediate and quick decisions made by the referee and his assistants, it is necessary to work on this aspect, whether it is in development and raising levels or in the aspect of measurement through their leadership of the matches to achieve success. It has become inevitable that every referee must perform his real duties using his own abilities, and the referee is always interacting inside the stadium with the events of the match and requires him to know its nature in order to be able to adapt to it and invest it to achieve justice by giving him the right decisions and the accuracy of his follow-up with the assistant referees, and he must be aware of all these things in order to be able to influence and control them physically, i.e. having a physical level that qualifies him to follow the course of the match with all its variables.