Six women amongst the officials named for Qatar 2022
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Six women amongst the officials named for Qatar 2022
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?The 2022 FIFA World Cup is just a few months away and the world governing body is well into the swing of final preparations – including the naming of 36 referees, 69 assistant referees, and 24 video match officials (VMOs) who will be in charge of games in Qatar.
?The officials were chosen in close 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.
?“As always, the criteria we have used is ‘quality first’ and the selected match officials represent the highest level of refereeing worldwide,” said the chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina. “The 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.”
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One notable aspect of the selection is that, for the first time in the history of the men’s World Cup, the FIFA Referees Committee has also appointed three women's referees and three women's assistant referees.
?“We are very happy that with Stéphanie Frappart from France, Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamashita from Japan, as well as assistant referees Neuza Back from Brazil, Karen Díaz Medina from Mexico and Kathryn Nesbitt from the USA, we have been able to call up female match officials for the first time in the history of a FIFA World Cup,” said Collina.
“This concludes a long process that began several years ago with the deployment of female referees at FIFA men’s junior and senior tournaments. In this way, we clearly emphasise that it is quality that counts for us and not gender.
?“I would hope that in the future, the selection of elite women’s match officials for important men’s competitions will be perceived as something normal and no longer as sensational. They deserve to be at the FIFA World Cup because they constantly perform at a really high level, and that’s the important factor for us.”
?Massimo Busacca, FIFA’s Director of Refereeing, says the match officials will receive all the necessary support to ensure they are able to perform to highest level: “Thanks to an innovative tracking and support programme, all the match officials can be supervised by FIFA referees’ instructors even more closely and intensively than in previous years.
?“This is a significant factor, from which we expect considerable improvements and progress in view of the FIFA World Cup 2022. In addition to that, there will be tailor-made individual programmes, 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.”
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