The importance of management skills in making referee`s decisions in football

Rast značajnosti nogometa kao najpopularnijeg sporta na svijetu s četiri milijarde pratitelja, utjecao je na porast kvalitete svih njegovih segmenata pa tako i sudačke organizacije. Rad je orijentiran prema nogometnim sucima koji stoga predstavljaju najvažniju i nezamjenjivu stavku upravljanja nogometnom utakmicom. U teorijskom dijelu je pobliže prikazan posao nogometnog suca i svi sustavni ciklusi djelovanja kroz koje prolaze. Također, u ovom diplomskom radu nogometni sudac je promatran i iz perspektive menadžmenta kao osoba koja svojim vještinama upravlja nogometnom utakmicom i svime što ona nosi. Obrađuje se pojam uloge i važnosti menadžerskih vještina kroz njihovu uporabu u donošenju sudačkih odluka tijekom nogometne utakmice. Iskustvo korištenja menadžerskih vještina, uz sudački rang djelovanja, predstavlja jedan od dva glavna faktora razlike njihove upotrebe, te se u toj prizmi oba i izučavaju u ovome radu. Cilj rada s obzirom na spomenuta dva glavna faktora bio je ispitati zastupljenost menadžerskih vještina i njihovo preciziranje čiji su se rezultati dobili analizom ispunjenog anketnog upitnika. Dokazano je kako suci pojedinačnih rangova na drugačiji način koriste i njeguju različite postotke zastupljenosti menadžerskih vještina u nogometnom suđenju. Samim tim, došlo se do zaključka kako menadžerske vještine i njihova uporaba u nogometnom suđenju značajno daju na važnosti i pomažu svim nogometnim sucima koji ih koriste i razvijaju u svome djelovanju. Uz zaključak, na kraju su iznesene tvrdnje koje govore na koji način ovaj rad može pridonijeti sudačkoj organizaciji HNS-a i preporuke za buduća istraživanja.The growing importance of football as the most popular sport in the world with four billion followers has affected the increase in the quality of all its segments, including the refereeing organization. The research is oriented towards football referees who, therefore, are the most important and irreplaceable item in managing football match. The theoretical part shows the work of a football referee in a more detailed way and all the systematic cycles of refereeing they go through. Also, in this thesis, a football referee is viewed through the perspective of management as the person who manages a football match with his skills and everything that it carries. The concept of the role and importance of managerial skills are addressed through their use in making decisions during football match. The experience of using managerial skills, along with the referee's rank, is one of the two main factors in the difference of their use, and through this prism both are studied in the paper. The aim of the paper regarding the mentioned two main factors was to examine the representation of managerial skills and their specifying, which results were obtained by analyzing the completed questionnaire. It is proved that referees from individual ranks use and cherish percentages of representation of managerial skills in football refereeing in different way. Therefore, it has come to the conclusion that managerial skills and their use in a football refereeing significantly give importance and help all football referees who use and develop them in their actions. In addition to the conclusion, in the end, claims were given that say how this thesis can contribute to the refereeing organization of the CFF and recommendations for future research