{"id":312296,"date":"2022-05-23T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=312296"},"modified":"2022-05-25T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:23:14","slug":"six-women-chosen-to-referee-at-qatar-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/six-women-chosen-to-referee-at-qatar-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Six women chosen to referee at Qatar World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) announced last week the list of the selected match officials for the World Cup Qatar to start in November. Among the selected 36 referees and 69 assistant referees, for the first time in the history of the tournament three women<\/strong> referees and three women assistant referees were appointed. They include Brazil\u2019s assistant referee Neusa Back (pictured<\/em>). Selected match officials represent the highest level of refereeing worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very happy that with Stephanie Frappart from France, Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamashita from Japan, as well as assistant referees Neuza Back from Brazil, Karen D\u00edaz Medina from Mexico and Kathryn Nesbitt from the United States, we have been able to call up female match officials for the first time in the history of a FIFA World Cup. This concludes a long process that began several years ago with the deployment of female referees at FIFA men\u2019s junior and senior tournaments. In this way, we clearly emphasize that it is quality that counts for us and not gender,\u201d FIFA Referees Committee chairman Pierluigi Collina stated.<\/p>\n

Collina said he hopes that in the future, the selection of elite women\u2019s match officials for important men\u2019s competitions will be perceived as something normal and no longer as sensational and stressed the high level of the selected female professionals. \u201cThe 2018 World Cup was very successful, partly because of the high standard of refereeing, and we will do our best to be even better in a few months in Qatar,\u201d Collina said. The officials were chosen in cooperation with the six confederations, based on their quality and the performances delivered at FIFA tournaments as well as at other international and domestic competitions in recent years. FIFA\u2019s slate of 24 video match officials (VMO) did not include any women.<\/p>\n

Selection<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u201cRoad to Qatar 2022\u201d project to select the officials started back in 2019, with more than 50 trios considered possible candidates and going through intensive preparation. Massimo Busacca, FIFA\u2019s Director of Refereeing, was quoted as saying in a statement that thanks to an innovative tracking and support program, all the match officials can be supervised by FIFA referees\u2019 instructors even more closely and intensively than in previous years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to that, there will be tailor-made individual programs, in particular concerning health and fitness. Each match official will be carefully monitored in the next months with a final assessment on technical, physical and medical aspects to be made shortly before the World Cup, in order to have them in the best conditions when the ball starts rolling in Qatar,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

The selected match officials will participate in early Summer in several seminars to take place in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay, Madrid, Spain and Doha, Qatar, reviewing and analyzing video clips of real match situations, and taking part in practical training sessions with players, which will be filmed to enable participants to receive instant feedback from the instructors.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rafael Vieira\/AGIF\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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