PRESS Release: KAA Gent Referee Academy innovates with AXIWI

The KAA Gent Referee Acadamy keeps fulfilling its role as an innovator and educator of young soccer referees. This time with the innovative AXIWI wireless communication systems (often called headsets) for the coaching of young referees. By using the headsets, with the referees who are in training, the observer can coach the referees directly on the field.  The wireless communication system helps young referees by providing the possibility to guide faster, more direct and better. In the end, after continuous coaching, the system will help them leading games with more confidence.

VIDEO: KAA Gent referee academy innovates with AXIWI

Benefits for the observer / referee coach

• Give feedback to the referee in the field during the game, directly.
• Referees get more confident.
• More focus on coaching.

Benefits for the referee

• Fast learning.
• Fast development.
• Fast and effective evaluation.
  
• Fast learning curve.

Benefits for the referee academy

• Professionalization Referee Academy.
• Referees develop their skills faster.
• Confident referees, less dropouts.
• Quality improvement ‘coaching’ observers.
• A tool for coaches to coach the referees more effective and efficient.

Opportunities coaching

Efficiently and effectively train a sporter? Continuously contacting other staff members during matches and trainings to inform each other?  From now on you will be able to use the AXIWI communication system for coaching and training. More and more coaches and trainers are using  a communication system  to instruct and give hints to sportsmen – and -women  and other staff members. The coach and the sporters/staff members all wear an AXIWI communication system. It’s a wireless communication system, so the coach and the sporters/staff members can talk directly to each other, just like making a phone call.

The AXIWI communication system could be used in several coaching related situations like:

• Communication between coach and sporter during a training.
• Communication between a coach and his assistants/staff members during a match.
• From a certain (professional) game level  referees are assisted by  a referee coach and from any  stand these  coaches  using a communication system are able to  watch  the  referee’s actions and  behaviour.  If needed, the referee coach  is able to  give instant  advice and instructions to the referee.

Experience: Herman Kruis (National coach Belarus women Fieldhockey)

Herman Kruis,  current coach of Belarus women’s hockey team and  former coach of the Dutch women’s hockey team (2006-2008 indoor, 2008-2010 outdoor) ,used the AXIWI communication system to communicate with his staff members during the Indoor Hockey European Championship 2016.

Kruis: ‘’During our matches the team manager and the assistant were  in the dug-out while  the videoman and  I were  positioned high up in the stadium  to get an  overall view . The AXIWI communication system worked   perfectly  and the communication between us was really  well, even in  a crowded stadium   with more than 3,000 wild fans.’