USA Olympic Referees

Yesterday's Quarterfinal was a truly memorable experience.  Not only did we truly enjoy our trip to Glasgow and the wonderful people we met along out journey, the match held many unique experiences as well.  Starting with the Scottish weather.  Warm-ups began with beautiful sunny skies, but as the FIFA anthem began for the walk out so to did the rain.  And it rained off an on for the full 90 minutes.  The pitch was the best pitch I've ever been on and you'd never had known it was raining as no grass come up on any slide tackle, and I luckily didn't regret wearing turf shoes! Additionally, if you had a chance to watch you might have noticed we started in Light Blue and ending in Red jerseys.  At FIFA events, the choice of color is not our own and word came down that red (despite the GK for France in orange) was a much better choice.  We agreed!  The match it self was good too, the outcome as it turned was very different than this same match up from the WWC last year which this crew officiated, with the French scoring more goals than Sweden.  My assistants had to work really hard in this match, for many very close offside decisions.  Well done guys!  Great team effort and we thank everyone for all their support.