Congratulations to Nabil Al-Saeidi for being accepted into the NISOA National Referee program as a National Referee Candidate. The NISOA National Referee certification cycle runs for two years. Over the next two years, Nabil will have to attend the National Referee camp and pass six assessments as a prerequisite for achieving National Referee status.
We are very excited that Nabil, along with our only active National Referee, Jim Memos, will represent our chapter with impeccable integrity and superior performance on and off the field.
Nick Apostolides has stepped down from his role as Director on the chapter executive board. Nick has served the chapter for many years and we are all indebted to him for his service. Nick’s integrity and tireless work for the chapter is unsurpassed. I am grateful and honored to have worked with him over the past few years. We hope he will continue to participate with the chapter, especially with the recruitment of new officials from the Long Island Soccer Referees Association.
While nobody can replace Nick, Klaus Mueller has accepted an appointment as a Director on the executive board. Klaus brings a wealth of officiating and assessing experience to the board.
September 23rd, 2007
8:40 pm
General
Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, Michael Jordan, Drew Henson and Dave DeBuscherre might be green with envy. Because although they played two sports professionally, none of them have been inducted into two sports’ Hall of Fames.
That high honor will belong to NYMISOA’s own George Snizek, who was inducted into the Long Island Ladies Soccer Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Eastern New York Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005. George has been nominated to be inducted into the East Coast Drag Times Drag Racing Hall of Fame in Henderson, North Carolina in 2008 and has also been nominated for consideration for the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame by drag racing icon, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits. Read the rest of this entry »
September 20th, 2007
2:56 pm
General
I received this email from long time ECAC assignor and NISOA Life Member, Werner Rothschild today.
Funny thing happened the other day. I wanted to watch a H.S. game in Syosset and went there to find a girls’ varsity game in progress. Just before half time one of the officials who knew me called, “Werner did you see that play?” I said, “Yes.” and the whistle blew ending the half.
A parent of one of the players comes over to me and says, “Your name is Werner? ” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Is your last name Rothschild?” Again, I said, “Yes, why?” He said, “You were my father’s soccer coach at CCNY in 1951!!” Unbelievable, you never know what can happen when you go to a game. Here is the real kicker (no pun ) he said, “You have not changed a bit from the team photograph in my father’s yearbook!!!”
Werner spends most of his time now in his Deerfield Beach, Florida residence, not far from where many former NY Metro ISOA members live.
NY Metro ISOA Member, Arnold Klein was named the 2007 NISOA Region 2 Referee of the Year. He received the prestigious award on August 3, 2007 at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York. Shown here with Bob Fischer (NY Metro ISOA past president), Whitney Stark (NISOA National Referee and Rockland/Westchester ISOA president), and John Puglisi (NY Metro ISOA president), Arnold’s superior dedication, professionalism and achievement in college soccer were recognized at the NISOA National Convention.
NY Metro ISOA members, Mike Catalano, Phil Catalano, Klaus Mueller, Pat Pinzon and Lou Minutoli officiated the women’s open and scholastic Empire State soccer games played at Manhattanville College. Mike Catalano and Klaus Mueller officiated the gold medal games.
The 2007 Empire State Games Men’s Open and Scholastic soccer matches were played in Rye Brook, NY and featured several NY Metro ISOA referees. John Leavy, George Bakaroudis, Jim Memos and John Puglisi officiated preliminary round games. Jim Memos (standout former LIU goalkeeper) was selected to referee the Men’s Open Gold Medal game with assistant referees, John Leavy and John Puglisi.
NISOA National Referee, Whitney Stark did a superb job coordinating the officials for all the men’s games.
