{"id":264923,"date":"2019-12-20T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=264923"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:25:33","slug":"fifa-club-world-cup-finals-to-have-all-qatari-referee-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/fifa-club-world-cup-finals-to-have-all-qatari-referee-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Club World Cup finals to have all-Qatari referee trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro \u2013 An all-Qatari referee trio be out in the field as Britain\u2019s Liverpool and Brazil\u2019s Flamengo play the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIFA<\/a> Club World Cup final in Doha, Qatar. The match is slated for 2:30pm (BRT). The main referee will be Abdulrahman Al Jassim (<em>pictured above during a match between Qatari teams<\/em>). He\u2019ll be assisted by Taleb Al Marri and Saoud Ahmed Almaqleh. Video assistant referee (VAR) duties will be handled by Spain\u2019s Juan Martinez Munuera.<\/p>\n<p>At age 32, this will be the highlight of Al Jassim\u2019s career. A FIFA referee since 2013, he\u2019s been the VAR in 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia matches.<\/p>\n<p>Nine referees have been appointed to oversee the match, including Atkins Kyle, of the United States and Esteban Ostojich of Uruguay as VARs.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth referee \u2013 whose job is to step in for the main ref in the event of an emergency \u2013 is Mustapha Ghorbal, of Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Jair Marrufo, born in the USA to a Mexican referee father, handled the final match (Real Madrid vs Al Ain).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264888\">Karim Jaafar\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool vs Flamengo will feature referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim and assistants Taleb Al Marri and Saoud Ahmed Almaqleh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":264888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[11547,9731,6476,38663,9598,13194,2541],"class_list":{"0":"post-264923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-doha-en","9":"tag-fifa-en","10":"tag-fifa-club-world-cup","11":"tag-flamengo-en-2","12":"tag-qatar-en","13":"tag-referee","14":"tag-soccer"},"wps_subtitle":"Liverpool vs Flamengo will feature referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim and assistants Taleb Al Marri and Saoud Ahmed Almaqleh.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}