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interest and took an active part in the preparations. These
meetings were the continuation of the meetings held in
South Africa in February 2010 with representatives of
the participating teams, at which multimedia materials
were distributed containing information pertaining to the
interpretation of the Laws of the Game.
Upon their arrival in South Africa, all the referees and
assistant referees took part in various theoretical and
practical activities on a daily basis, which had been
developed with a high level of professionalism and the latest
technology.
A virtual platform enabled the 64 matches to be recorded
and incidents to be selected and immediately analysed by
instructors and viewed by the referees.
During the practical training, a virtual refereeing programme
enabled the referees and assistant referees to analyse their
decisions immediately after they had taken them on the fi eld
of play by viewing them on a monitor providing replays at
different speeds.
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
The experts on technical matters, fi tness, psychology, energy
and medicine prepared extensive theoretical and practical
preparation programmes. The training sessions took place
with the assistance of a team of footballers in order to carry
out exercises using match situations.
The Director of the FIFA Technical Study Group, Jean-Paul
Brigger, also helped to familiarise the referees with the
teams and players taking part in the tournament.
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After the matches, meetings were held to analyse the
major incidents. All the matches were recorded and the
instructors selected all the incidents that were to be
analysed with the referees. The aim was to analyse these
situations with a view to improving performance in the next
matches.
Other scientifi c studies were carried out during the
World Cup matches, including a detailed biomechanical
study in which the referees’ positions on the fi eld of