Editing Cooper test (section)

== Football referees ==
The Cooper test was one of the most commonly used fitness tests to measure the fitness levels of both amateur and professional football referees, including referees from the [[The Football Association|FA]] (English Football Association). More recently, many countries have decided to stop relying on the Cooper Test, claiming that the Cooper test does not correlate well to a real football match, where players run short sprints rather than at a regular pace. Thus it may not truly indicate if a referee will be able to perform well in a football match. All [[FIFA]] referees are now required to pass the [[HI Intensity Fitness Test]]. National associations are gradually requiring some of their top-tier officials to do the HI Intensity Fitness Test also. Lower level referees are often given a choice to either perform the HI Intensity Fitness Test or the Cooper Test. Nevertheless, the recent trend seems to indicate that the Cooper Test is slowly being phased out.<ref name="The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research">{{cite journal|title=Fitness test results of Hungarian and international-level soccer referees and assistants |last=Bartha|first=C. et, al.|date= Jan 2009|journal=The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research|pmid=19125100|doi=10.1519/JSC.0b013e31818ebb84|volume=23|issue=1|pages=121–6|s2cid=40841714 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="cnn1">{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/04/world.cup.referees.fitness/index.html|title=World Cup referees outrun players|last=Park|first=Madison|date=4 June 2010|work=CNN.com|access-date=27 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819231322/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-06-04/health/world.cup.referees.fitness_1_referees-elite-soccer-players-soccer-field?_s=PM:HEALTH|archive-date=19 August 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="smithsonian1">{{cite news|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/How-to-Train-a-World-Cup-Referee.html|title=How to Train a World Cup Referee|last=Morrison|first=Jim|date=22 June 2010|work=Smithsonian.com|accessdate=27 July 2012|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927173446/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/How-to-Train-a-World-Cup-Referee.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>