FLAG & WHISTLE the Darren Clark Experience
FLAG & WHI STL E Official Newletter of the BC Soccer Referees Association – Holiday Issue The Darren Clark Experience Major Leage Ref – “Kamloops This Week” newspaper by Marty Hastings This article has been edited for Flag & Whistle David Beckham is one of the best 90,500 fans at the Rose Bowl in soccer players in the world. To Darren Pasadena, Calif. A year later, he Clark, a 37-year-old assistant referee from worked a game between Costa Rica, Kamloops, the English footballing super- the home side, and Spain. star was just No. 23 in white at the MLS “There was basically the entire Cup on Saturday, December 1, 2012. Spain team on the field that had won “If somebody asks you, ‘How was that the World Cup in 2010,” said Clark, a game from a fan's perspective?’ and you teacher at Logan Lake secondary. can answer that question, you probably Clark, who started working MLS haven't been concentrating,” said Clark, games in 2008, did 13 matches last who patrolled the sidelines when the Los season, including two playoff games Angeles Galaxy downed the Houston and seven tilts featuring the Van Dynamo 3-1 at the Home Depot Centre in couver Whitecaps. An assistant ref- Carson, Calf. eree of his calibre in MLS is paid The entire on-field officiating group at $720 per game. Travel and accommo- the championship final was Canadian – a dation costs are also taken care of and Major League Soccer first. Daniel Belleau a per diem is provided. of Quebec was the game’s other assistant Clark’s Logan Lake students are referee, while Silviu Petrescu of Ontario aware of his activities away from was the match referee.
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