Referees Instructor or FIFA termed it as Technical Instructor is a thankless job in the development of referees. If one feel that it is a way to make money then he/she has got the wrong concept. The income from giving courses will not be able to get back the investment that he/she has to put in like buying a laptop, maybe a multimedia projector, magnetic board, laser pointer and many other gadgets 9if you want to be different or special one from others).
Before one feel that he/she wants to be one, he/she has to evaluate the qualities that an instructor needs to possess in order to want to be one. Even when he/she is still an active, there should be an urge to wanting to teach, to guide, to assist or to show others how to be better in the skill of refereeing. Always wanting to read and understand the laws of the Game better, going over and over again to understand it better, to explain and convince others or testing himself with quizzes on the laws of the Game. Keeping himself/herself updated with the latest amendments to the laws even before getting it through the mail by browsing FIFA or other relevant sites for it. When refereeing, always critical of one's performance, self-evaluation and self-analysis is his/her normal practice after every match. Always wanting to do better in each and every performance. Opened to criticism or opinion by others and accepting good points from others to improve further (If he/she cannot accept other's criticism, will he/she be able to give it to others or feel that others will accept his/hers).
Possessed the passion of browsing or looking other aspects related to the development of one's refereeing skills and performance, like fitness training, weight training, psychological practices, nutrition and pre-game nutrition, sports injuries and remedy or recovery methodology, training equipments and facilities, football coaching principles and strategy in play and many other related aspects of football to enrich one's knowledge and experiences.
Training the trainers is a normal practice to recruit new instructor. Some can be trained or moulded into good instructors but some can and will not be a good one as the urge or the eagerness to improve is not possessed. This is due to the individual objectives or aims to be an instructor.
Personal characters and appearance is one aspect that will bring out the flare of a "different" , "special" or "an excellent" instructor. Individual talking skill, persuading or marketing skills, instructional delivery skill, technical skill with multimedia facilities, ability in making or producing his/her own teaching or instructional material are among the personal aspect that one needs to possess to be an excellent, if not a better instructor. Natural traits of the ability or the wanting the see the best in others, the positive aspects or traits of others, the strength and potentials of others will make one an acceptable instructor rather that the one who always sees the negative points of others, always critical or finding the faults of others or even having a negative concept of everything which makes a bad one.
Looking at all the aspect highlighted above, one can now evaluate if one can be one of the future instructor to be. If interested he/she can starts to put in effort to change his/hers perspective to everythings besides trying to gain all the skills, knowledge and approaches in instructional skills to perform better as a referee and later on as an instructor.
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