Inside SOCAL Soccer League's Plan To Address America's Grassroots Referee Shortage with special guest, Michelle Chesters, Executive Director of SOCAL Soccer League

Send us Fan Mail Youth soccer can’t function without referees, yet too many leagues treat officials like an afterthought until the shortage hits. I sit down with Michelle Chesters, Executive Director of SoCal Soccer League, to talk candidly about what it really takes to support referees across one of the biggest youth soccer footprints in the United States: roughly 5,200 teams, over 50,000 players, and games scattered across about 1,200 field locations on a typical weekend. When that many mat...