SKN REFEREES SHARPENED AT PRE-SEASON SEMINAR
The skills of referees in St Kitts and Nevis were sharpened on the weekend of February 1st at the 2025 SKNFA Referees Preseason Seminar held at the National Bank Group of Companies Technical Centre in St Peters. Head of the SKNFA Referee Department, Graeme Browne, spoke to the objectives of the seminar. “The objective of this seminar is to bring everybody on one page. We want to bring all the referees in the Federation because our (country) is unique. It’s two islands, some in Nevis and some in St Kitts. So most times we have the sessions on Zoom, but we feel that prior to the start of the 2025 football season, we wanted to bring everybody in one room, one classroom setting, make sure that everybody have the same understanding and interpretation of the law changes so that when we go on the we’re able to administer, carry out our duties effectively but consistently,” he said.
Mr Browne emphasised the efforts to build a good relationship between referees and football clubs in the Federation. “Last season we’ve heard, we’ve listened to the clubs that the inconsistency in the application of the laws of the game was a major challenge and that created some not so nice relationship between the clubs and officials. We met with the SKNFA Council and they have asked us to try and improve…so we could have a more harmonised relationship on and off the field,” Browne said. “We felt the best way to do this was to have a pre-season seminar before the start of the league.” Mr Brown noted that most of the instructors at the seminar are locally-based. The seminar ended on Sunday, February 2nd.
