new delhi the all india football federation aiff organised an online fifa ma course for referees on tuesday and wednesday the programme primarily focussing on rule changes and handball interpretations among othersfifty referees attended the coursefarkhad abdullaev from uzbekistan was the course instructor for the samenew amendments in the laws of the game handball interpretations penalty area incidents and football understandings of the referees were stressed upon during the twoday coursewe had a good chance to discuss amendments in the laws of the game 202021 and clarify many important aspects like accidental handball situations followed by an immediate goal or offside offences we had an indepth discussion on penalty area incidents and offside decisions abdullaev stressedthe uzbek served as a technical instructor in four fifa world cups including 2018 russia as well as two editions of the afc asian cupfurther he suggested the importance of realmatch experience for the development of a refereewith the support of afc and fifa they will get the opportunities to improve themselves but a realmatch experience is of utmost importance local qualified instructors should be involved closely and all the match situations from leagues should be analysed deeplylocal instructors and assessors play a very important role in developing the referees what people do at the local level needs to be polished at a higher level afc and fifarahul gupta a fifa panelled referee informed how this course helped him enhance refereeing skillsi personally have a lot of clarity regarding the matchchanging situations penalty box incidents handball and so on which will in turn enhance my refereeing skills gupta saidmr farkhad clarified the law amendments of 2021 with video analysis that helped us understand the motive of the amendment and implementation for my upcoming assignments venkatesh r aiff referee of the year feltabdullaev said that he expects more indian referees in fifa and afc panels soonindia is a very big country and it is not easy to get everyone to participate in a seminar but online education can help us i hope to see more indian referees and assistant referees in afc and fifa level within 12 yearsthe 50 referees who attended the course are as follows aditya purkayastha akash jackson routh akash mehta asish tiwari ashwin cr srirrishna crystal john debasish mandi dipu roy diwakar kumar fasil salahudeen harish kundu ibungo meetei jamal mohamed james roy jatinder singh jehrul islam kanika barman khamruddin km ajitkumar meitei priyobarta singh santhosh kumar mithun kumar kundu moosa v mrutyunjay amatya nripen halder prabhat kalita pranjal banerjee pratik mondal palmson moses r venkatesh rafeek babu mp rahul kumar gupta raktim saha ramadasan ranjit baksi ranjita devi ravindra thapliyal rosario fernandes rowan arumughan senthil nathan s srikant bohidar sugandar m sumiraj ps tanmoy dhar tejas nagvenkar umesh bora v eshwar rao vishal williams j koshy