In a historic first, Stéphanie Frappart of France, Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga and Yoshimi Yamashita of Japan, three ladies, have been chosen among the many 36 referees to officiate on the World Cup in Qatar, FIFA introduced on Thursday.
“This concludes a protracted course of that started a number of years in the past with the deployment of feminine referees a FIFA males’s junior and senior tournaments,” mentioned FIFA’s head of refereeing Pierluigi Collina.
“On this manner, we clearly emphasize that it’s high quality that counts for us and never gender. I’d hope that sooner or later, the number of elite ladies’s match officers for necessary males’s competitions will probably be perceived as one thing regular and not as sensational. They need to be on the FIFA World Cup as a result of they always carry out at a very excessive stage, and that’s the necessary issue for us.”
Congratulations to:
Yamashita Yoshimi 🇯🇵
Stephanie Frappart 🇫🇷
Salima Mukansanga 🇷🇼The primary three feminine referees to be chosen for a males’s FIFA World Cup 👏 pic.twitter.com/tnCS3zImSd
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) May 19, 2022
Neuza Again of Brazil, Mexico’s Karen Díaz Medina, and Kathryn Nesbitt from america have been picked within the group of assistants that can run the road and flag for offside within the event. In whole, FIFA chosen 69 match officers.
