Level of football referees psychological preparation

Title: Level of football referees psychological preparation Objectives: One of the aims of this study is to describe mental skills and to highlight importance of psychological preparation for football referees and describe options of psychical preparation. Next of the aims will be found which mental skills are most using by referee by their work. Third aim will be attest hypothesis about using mental skills in correlation with experiences. Methods: In our study we used method of analysis for analysing psychological preparation, measurement method for obtaining data with using TOPS questionary. Next we by using statistical method of spearman corelation coeficient found correlation between using mental skills and experiences. Method of comparation was used for comparing results of TOPS questionary of footbal referees and TOPS results of other groups of sportmens. Results: On examined sample (n = 29) we found by using spearman corelation coeficient some significant correlation of positive and negative direction. For that reason we can't determine progress of using mental skills on experiences for statistical significant. Keywords: mental skills, TOPS, education of football referees, mental toughnes