Mover and Shaker Paul Rejer, Professional Referee Organization (PRO) Training & Development Manager, Shares with Whom You Know Readers His Expert Thoughts on the 2016 Euro Championships-He Taught the Referees Who Called It! Our Coverage Sponsored by R World Media
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Last season, Peachy Deegan covered every single NYCFC home game starting at Game 3, and that is how she knows Paul Rejer.
Here is Paul Rejer featured as a Mover and Shaker:
Paul is the Professional Referee Organization (PRO) Training & Development Manager.
He moved to America from England specifically to do this, and MLS decided that no one in America is as knowledgeable about soccer as Paul, and we concur. So he moved over to help lead Americans into the great sport of football, which Americans call soccer.
If you think Peachy Deegan is a serious critic, and she absolutely does mean business, you should meet Paul. He critiques the play called by the referees in MLS, and we truly appreciate and admire his attention to detail, which is extremely rare at the level he's at. We know a lot of people in sports but we never knew anyone who legitimately had as a profession the position of telling the referees how do to their job! And we are confident that he does it nicely. We bet you all want his job, but no one does it better.
Paul had trained the referees who called the recent Euro 2016 Championship!
Mover and Shaker Paul Rejer comments:
What a great Summer of Soccer we have seen this year with the Euro’s and Copa America almost running simultaneously.
As expected, England let me down as always. For some reason, they are consistent when it comes to qualifying for a tournament, but in a tournament environment, they are awful. In the game against Iceland, every single player was terrible and Iceland deserved to win. I actually felt sorry for the coach Roy Hodgson; he did his best and he is a good coach and a good man. My club team is West Bromwich Albion, and unfortunately is another team that has always let me down. When Roy was coach, we went from a struggling team to top 10 in the EPL (that's ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE for the daft Americans like Peachy! She's learning though she has seen many more hockey games). He did a great job and thoroughly deserved the England job.
One team that didn’t let me down was the English refereeing Crew who performed so well that they officiated the final between Portugal and France. I know these guys very well as I used to work with them in England and now they are fulfilling the potential that I saw in them. Referee Mark Clattenburg to me is now the number one referee in the World. His two ARs Simon Beck and Jake Collin are top class officials and together as a crew, they work very well together and are quite comfortable with each other. This is crucially important for teamwork.
I could see in that final and all their other performances in the Euros that their decision making was of always accurate and consistent. Clattenburg’s fitness and positioning is incredible; he looks fitter than all of the players!
I am now fortunate enough to work with the elite referees in the USA and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see one of our guys referee the World Cup Final and in the last World Cup in Brazil, Mark Geiger from New Jersey refereed exceptionally well and I would hope would be a contender.
If not Mark then maybe the other Mark, either way it would be awesome!
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Note from the Editor: Thank you to Des Curran, who first taught us all we know about European Sports. Now Des is with EIR Sport.
