Three female referees and three female assistant referees have been chosen for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, making it the first men’s edition to have female match officials.
Three female referees and three female assistant referees have been chosen for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, making it the first men’s edition to have female match officials.
Women referees will create World Cup history for the first time this year by playing in a major men’s tournament Queue,
Three female referees and three female assistant referees were announced by FIFA on 19 May from the 129 officials selected for World Cup duty, including a man who had suffered a heatstroke in January during a chaotic African Cup. Caused controversy by refereeing the Off Nations game.
After handling the 2019 Women’s World Cup final, French referee Stephanie Fraparte has already worked in World Cup qualifying and the men’s game in the Champions League. He also refereeed the final of the men’s French Cup this month.
‘Quality first’: Pierluigi Colina
“As always, the criterion we have used is ‘quality first’ and the selected match officials represent the highest level of refereeing around the world,” said Pierluigi Colina, president of the FIFA Referees Committee, who won the 2002 World Cup final. has worked. “As such, we explicitly emphasize that it is quality that matters to us and not gender.”
Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga and Japan’s Yoshimi Yamashita are also on the list of 36 referees preparing for 64 games at the tournament, which will be played from November 21 to December 18.
The 69 assistant referees include Nuza Back of Brazil, Karen Diaz Medina of Mexico and Katherine Nesbitt of the United States.
“I hope that in the future the selection of elite women’s match officials for important men’s competitions will be considered something ordinary and no longer sensationalized,” Collina said.
Controversial AFCON referee involved
The male referee is Zambia’s Jenny Sikzawe, who blew the final whistle in an African Cup group match after 85 minutes and, 13 seconds before the completion of 90 minutes, Mali gave Tunisia a 1–0 lead.
About 30 minutes after the match, officials ordered the teams to play back on the field, but Tunisia refused. The result was later confirmed by the Confederation of African Football, despite Tunisia’s official opposition.
The match was played in Cameroon in heat and humidity, and Sikzawe later explained that he was beginning to get confused in the intense conditions.
Sikzave will serve in his second World Cup after handling two group games at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
The extreme heat in Qatar prompted FIFA to move the tournament in 2015 to the cooler months in the Gulf emirate.
FIFA has selected 24 people to work on the video reviews. The VAR system made its debut in 2018.
FIFA said 50 referee-and-assistant trios began preparations for World Cup duty in 2019, with the project impacted by the limit on international travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two referees were elected each from Argentina, Brazil, England and France.
FIFA said all officials—who were not allocated this year to specific teams of the three-faced future technical, physical and medical evaluations—were not.