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    "title": "Canada Soccer holds national pre-season camp for referees",
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    "published_at": "2014-03-03 18:32:00",
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    "subtitle": "Canada Soccer held its national pre-season camp for referees in Ottawa, ON from 14-16 February.",
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    "body": "<p>On-field and theoretical sessions were led by FIFA Futuro Instructors John Nielsen, Amato De Luca, Isaac Raymond, Carman King and Canada Soccer Head of Refereeing Tiger Liu.</p><p>Also in attendance were Chair of Canada Soccer&rsquo;s Referee Committee Tony Camacho, Committee Member Bedik Charchafian and Alan Brown representing PRO.</p><p>An awards banquet was held Saturday night to highlight officials who attended FIFA and CONCACAF events in 2013: Dave Gantar and Philippe Bri&egrave;re for the 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championships; Dave Gantar, Philippe Briere and Joe Fletcher for the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013; Marie-Soleil Beaudoin for the 2013 CONCACAF U-15 Championships; Sheena Dickson for the 2013 CONCACAF Women&rsquo;s U-17 Championships; and Joe Fletcher for the FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2013.</p><p>Awards were also given to Carol Anne Ch&eacute;nard, Marie-Jos&eacute;e Charbonneau and Suzanne Morisset for the 2013 Algarve Cup Final. A special award was also presented to Silviu Petrescu who retired from the FIFA list at the end of 2013.</p><p>Three new officials were then added to the National List for 2014: Alexis Vaughan (ON), Peter Pendli (ON) and Chris Wattam (BC).</p><div class=\"release-content-contact\" id=\"contact-723f13be-f3e4-48e6-ac6e-0afcc39addb8\">\n    \n    <div class=\"release-content-contact__details\">\n        <strong class=\"release-content-contact__name\">Paulo Senra</strong>\n        <em class=\"release-content-contact__description\">Chief Communications &amp; Content Officer | Chef des communications et du contenu, Canada Soccer</em>\n        <ul class=\"release-content-contact__details-list\"><li class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item\"><a href=\"mailto:psenra@canadasoccer.com\"  class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item-link\" title=\"psenra@canadasoccer.com\"><svg class=\"icon icon-paper-plane release-content-contact__details-list-item-icon\">\n                <use xlink:href=\"#icon-paper-plane\"></use>\n            </svg>psenra@canadasoccer.com</a></li>\n<li class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item\"><a href=\"tel:(416)&nbsp;882-7919\"  class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item-link\" title=\"(416)&nbsp;882-7919\"><svg class=\"icon icon-mobile release-content-contact__details-list-item-icon\">\n                <use xlink:href=\"#icon-mobile\"></use>\n            </svg>(416)&nbsp;882-7919</a></li></ul>\n    </div>\n</div>",
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