There is also a new timeline for candidates to register for the 2021-23 cycle.
The registration period begins October 15, 2020, and runs until March 31, 2021, and it is during this time when candidates must be registered, tested and ultimately verified. The list of approved FIBA Game Officials will be announced by mid-June 2021 and the Licensed Period 2021-23 will commence on September 1, 2021.
The commitment to female referees is being made as part of the Women in Basketball strategic objective. FIBA has allocated dedicated License allocations for female referees to each eligible National Federation. Lees “Chances for ambitious lady referees!” verder
Don’t you just hate it if there’s so much going on that even with an IRS (or just Sam Subby’s amazing youtube channel) at your disposal it’s hard to figure out what to call?? This one is amazing. We’d love to hear your opinions!
There’s another clip from Milan Matic we want to share with you. The question is quite simple: Personal or unsportsmanlike foul ? as stated in the title. We’d like to add another question. As you can see the coach of the team on offense is quite dramatic in expressing his opinion. What do you do about a coach (or a player, or a substitute) who is that explicit in asking for an unsportsmanlike foul? If anything 🙂 So I hope we will get lots of replies with 2 answers! 
From time to time our head coach Bob Bhania will share some thoughts with the highly appreciated visitors of this site. We kindly invite you to react and discuss to the topics in our 
Our friends at REDIG24 made a nice video with points of emphasis in Pick ‘n Roll situations. Very worth watching and only five minutes!! I’d say: Click below! 
Especially if you are new to the business it’s not strange if you don’t have the exact feeling for calling travelling violations, especially when it comes to stationairy players who can and sometimes have pivot(ed). FIBA Referee Bernard Vassallo is behind the Developing Others Series on youtube and made an nice explanation. 
For it’s almost weekend let’s try another clip! Here’s a nice one: What will you do?? And for bonus (3po mechanics) : Who’s responsability is it to call (or no call) this play? The clip is from Milan Mazic. 
Lots of options in the following clip where it at first seems that big things are happening. It gives a nice indication of why it is important to not be too close to play (IOT), because you might get tricked into making the wrong call.
A few weeks ago we noticed that Individual officiating Techniques are not as widely known as we assumed. IOT is developed to help us as referees make better decisions on court, which will make our job even more fun to do! So let’s learn from the best! Mohammad Rahimy once again has Roberto Chiari , a two time olympic referee and very experienced referee instructor to share his knowledge about IOT. It’s very worth watching!! Why not start improving your knowledge before the next game you are going to do!