CAN DO BASKETBALL referees camp to start in Samokov

"Tomorrow 7th June starts the 21st edition of the famous worldwide basketball education and training camp for young referees, the biggest one in the Europe - CAN DO BASKETBALL. Bulgaria will be hosting it for a 5th consequtive time where this year the event will take place in Samokov - 7-12 June with the cooperation of Bulgarian Basketball Federation, BC Rilski Sportist and EUROHOLD Balkan League. This time the referees will officiate 2 final competitions - U16 girls and U16 boys.   Mr. Shay Shtriks - the Camp Director and Mr. Alan Richardson - the owner of the Camp and the head instructor are already in Samokov with all the crew of popular FIBA and Euroleague Instructors ready for the upcoming week full of lectures, games, practice courses, etc.   84 candidates from 28 countries are expected to arrive today in Samokov and to participate in the camp. Four Bulgarian referees will present the country - Nikolay Tsintsarski, Martin Horozov, Iliyan Zhelev and Petar Petrov.    Since its foundation in 1993 until nowadays, 150 referees from 38 countries who attended CAN DO BASKETBALL have become FIBA referees and some of them were and are at moment the leading figures in the officiating in Europe, such as: Richard Stokes, Zoran Sutulovic, Oliver Krause, Robert Lottermoser, Elias Koromilas, Nikolaos Somos, Olegs Latisevs, Zdravko Rutesic, Igor Dragojevic, Sasa Pukl, Damir Javor and many many others.       BGbasket.com received exclusive information that for the first time in the modern European officiating a new method for evaluating the referee′s performance and calls judgement during the game will be implemented in order to improve the quality of the calls and thus the whole performance. Which this method is and how it works we will understand in the course of the camp when in front of our microphone will be Mr. Richardson himslef.   Here it is the time to thank everyone who supports this project - Bulgarian Basketball Federation and especially the President Mr. Georgi Glushkov; BC Rilski Sportist - Mr. Petar Georgiev and Mr. Borislav Chilingirov; the EUROHOLD Balkan League Sports Director Mr. Shay Shtriks and the staff of Balkan Sport and Travel who have been working very hard for the last 5 months so that the organisation is on the highest possible level. "