In November, the men’s soccer World Cup will be played in Qatar. Now Fifa has released the list of referees who will follow during the championship.
36 main judges, 69 assistants and 24 video judges will be available for the championship in Qatar.
Then, for the first time in history, several female referees and assistants have been exposed to judge in a men’s WC.
The main judges who follow to judge in the Qatar World Cup are names like Stéphanie Frappart, Salima Mukansanga and Yoshimi Yamashita.
Neuza Back, Karen Díaz Medina and Kathryn Nesbitt have been selected as assistant judges.
– This ends a long process that started several years ago, with the production of female judges for tournaments for men and men juniors. This emphasizes that for us it is about quality and not gender, says the chairman of the referee committee Pierluigi Collina to Fifa’s website and continues:
– I hope that the choice of female elite judges for important men’s competitions in the future will be perceived as something normal and no longer as sensational. They deserve to be in the World Cup because they are constantly performing at a really high level, and that is the important factor for us.
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