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Fall 2015 ASL Preseason Meeting

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• If you paid to play in the summer, that has nothing to do with paying for the fall. No one paid for the summer and fall. We don’t provide such a payment plan. If you’re telling your players they did, please stop.

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Important Dates

• Sep 3 – final date to register men’s premier players• Sep 5 to 7 – office closed for Labor Day• September 10 – final registration session for first game, 6 pm

to 9 pm at the office• September 12 – the office is not open• September 13 – first Sunday games• October 11 – last day to complete transfer paperwork for fall

season• October 12 – fall season fee decreases• November 15 – makeup games• November 21-22 – Fall Classic Soccer Tournament

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Communications From The League

1. Team contacts2. E mail3. Facebook4. Twitter5. Texting from the office6. Referee evaluation form

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Player Registration

• Players can register any time during office hours• It is the team’s responsibility to set up the player

information and picture in the folder before they come in. if you do not, the player pays an extra $10 because this is what causes long lines.

• Players who don’t have a clue• Transfers• Refunds• Players may play one men’s team or one women’s team and

one coed team. They may not play on two men’s teams, two women’s teams or two coed teams.

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How to Complete the Online Liability Waiver

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How Your Player Can Pay Online1. Log in to your team folder2. Click Settings3. The first button is Link to Individual Player Pages…..Select yes4. Save the settings5. You MUST enter an email address in each players player record.6. You’re done.

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What the Player Must Do

• Go to the Team Login page for Fall 2015. This is not the same page as Fall 2014.

• Enter the PLAYER email address that matches the PLAYER email address in the player record for YOUR Team.

• Click on the link that says the player needs a PIN. The PIN will immediately be send to that e-mail address from Demosphere. The player then uses that PIN to log in to the player’s individual folder.

• The player can then click the Payment option, enter his or her credit card information, and the payment will generate both an email and will show in the payments link in your team folder.

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Coach Passcards

• If you have a nonplaying coach, meaning not a registered player, that person needs to go to the office and get a passcard. There is no charge. If your “coach” causes problems in a game and we don’t have a record of that person being your “coach,” then your person has created fan problem, which will become very expensive for your team.

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Referee Issues

• We know who the referee is. We don’t need you to help us establish their identity.

• We don’t have enough referees and how you can become one.

• What constitutes referee abuse.• Who makes decisions at game time if teams aren’t ready

to play.• The referees don’t know the league rules. After the

referee has been an idiot for 90 minutes, the referee’s opinion on how many games you’re suspended isn’t binding on us

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Insurance

• The league offers a player accident insurance program as part of our general liability coverage.

• We are discontinuing the additional insurance coverage program. It costs $4 per player and less than 5% of the claims we submit are from uninsured players. Essentially a lot of people are subsidizing very few people.

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Concussion Education

• We are required by the city to have an ongoing education program for concussion recognition.

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Field issues

• Rain, tsunami, typhoon, etc.• Makeup games• Toilets• Nets• Don’t bring dogs to the complex in Bernalillo• It is against the law to have alcohol at any of the

fields we use.• Setting up a practice field• Directions to the fields are on the web site

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Postponing games

• All makeup games will be played the Sunday after the regular season.

• The team requesting the reschedule must get approval from their opponent.

• The team requesting the reschedule pays a $25 reschedule fee.

• Obvious point: If you can’t play the Sunday after the regular season, don’t ask to reschedule.

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The Team Representative Notebook Folder

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What to do on (and before) game day

• Go to the folder titled Day of Game procedures. Read them.

• Important point if your player has received a red card and is eligible to play again.

• Numbered uniforms.• Forfeits

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Things I Need You To Do

• Add additional team contacts so we have multiple people with whom we can communicate.

• Go to your team folder and select your uniform colors to display. This is how you know your opponent’s uniform colors.

• Print a roster to take to your game every week.

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Red Card Suspensions

• Referee Abuse and Violent Conduct – 3 game suspension, $50 fine and a $50 bond

• Serious foul Play - $25 fine and 3 game suspension• Other red cards - $10 fine and one game

suspension• Stories that aren’t credible• Do not, under any circumstances, get your story

from the referee on the league rules or suspension periods or fines.

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Appeals

• Appeals must be made in person at the office be close of business on Wednesday after a Sunday game. That means 2 pm. The appeal fee is $25.

• You do not need the referee report to file an appeal and we will not extend the deadline because you haven’t seen the referee report.

• The person who received the red card does not have to file the appeal.

• Hearings are at 6:30 at the league office on the Thursday immediately after the game.

• Filing an appeal is not the same as having your card overturned.