In the first leg of the first phase of the Copa Sudamericana between Medellín and América, on Wednesday at the Atanasio, attention was not only drawn by the party in the stands and Julio Comesaña’s team for their victory and good play, for moments.
The assistant referee for this international commitment was the Brazilian Kleber Gil, who was in the western sector and generated surprise with her presence, since in Colombian professional soccer it is not common to see women directing matches.
According to the São Paulo Soccer Federation, her entry into the world of arbitration was thanks to her brother André Back, who was a member of the Santa Catarina Federation and invited her to join the team. She took her first steps as a delegate and in 2007 she took the test to be a judge, which she passed. From there she fully entered the world of football fulfilling that role.
The one born in Saudades has managed 164 games as a professional, in which her participation in the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro-2016, Tokyo-2021 and the Club World Cup-2020 stands out.
His debut as an assistant was in 2009. In that year he only directed a commitment in the Serie A of Brazil; He currently has 110 in this contest and has a Fifa badge since 2014.
In 2020, Neuza went down in Brazilian soccer history for being the first female assistant in a men’s international match outside her country, in a Copa Sudamericana match between Peñarol from Uruguay and Vélez Sarsfield from Argentina.
Now the purpose of this 37-year-old woman is to attend the 2022 Qatar World Cup. She has plenty of capacity, as happened at the Atanasio, where she showed character and personality, as coach Juan Carlos Osorio was able to verify when he claimed
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international matches has directed Kleber Gil as a professional.
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