EGYSL Updates - Technical Area & refing from EGYSL

The technical area is only 10 yards and is defined as 5 yards each side of the center line, or about 5 adult strides on each side of the center line. As a coach, you are to stay within the technical area during active play, period. There have been reports of coaches and parents sending in instructions from outside the technical area. No coaching is allowed outside of this area!
Parents should also observe this rule; they should fan out from the center line when they arrive at the game and be a minimum of a yard or 3 feet back from the touch line. Parents are advised to stay near the center line as well (it’s tough not yelling out instructions to the kids as a parent, so they need to stay close to the technical area as well). By the way, there is a common complaint from the refs - no agent from your team shall be behind the goal, nor shall they be any closer than ten yards to the goal line (about 10 adult strides). A person there can be trying to distract an opposing player or trying to create an unfair advantage by coaching behind the goal line.
The third thing is coaches walking out on the field during play. Just so you know coaches shall not walk out on field unless given permission. Look for discipline coming on this issue and don’t let it be you.
The last thing I want to leave you with is refereeing. Did any of you watch the Women’s World Cup semi finals featuring the United States women’s team against the Brazilian women’s team??? There are a couple of things we can take from that game and apply to our own games.
The first thing I want to point out to you is the center ref, Nicole Petignat, is a very well known and competent referee and she is also paid very well to make correct calls.
The second thing is when USA player Shannon Boxx was called for her second foul. All she was doing was moving up and down the field and the Brazilian player ran over Boxx’s feet from behind and tripped. Did any of you see a foul in that??? It resulted in Boxx getting her second yellow card of the game, and automatically being issued a red card.
This is a highly paid, highly trained, and seasoned referee, did she make a mistake?
Think about this the next time that you have a kid or an adult at your game, may be they're just starting out. What about hen a ref makes a call, you have one side of the field saying “great call” and the other side wanting to throw rocks at them.
At this point as a coach, if I get some bad calls I’ll cut my losses and look at the positives that I can get from the game. Things like “did the kids do anything that they learned at practice?”, did we play well??