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Dommer/Referee

Pedro Proença attacked by fan

August 14, 2011

Pedro Proença, the top Portuguese official, was attacked by a fan in a shopping centre last Monday. The leading official suffered two broken teethes after being headbutted. Benfica, a nearby club, denounced the attack on the referee with a statement: “Episodes like this strip sport in general and football in particular of its prestige and [...]

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Champions League appointments, Tuesday, Play-off, 1st leg

August 14, 2011

Arsenal – Udinese Referee: Kevin Blom, Netherlands Assistant referees: Nicky Siebert, Patrick Langkamp Additional assistant referees: Reinold Wiedemeijer, Tom van Sichem Fourth official: Danny Makkelie Uefa delegate: Sune Hellströmer, SwedenUefa referee observer: Wilfried Heitmann, Germany København – Plzen Referee: Martin Atkinson, England Assistant referees: Michael Mullarkey, Peter Kirkup Additional assistant referees: Anthony Taylor, Kevin Friend Fourth official: Michael [...]

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Referee kit used in the Champions League final up for auction

August 5, 2011

The kit used by assistant referee Gábor Erös in the Champions League final last May is up for auction. Viktor Kassai’s assistant was diagnosed with kidney cancer and had surgery October last year. The auction will run until August 16, and the current bid is on 81000 HUF. Visit the auction here. UEFA Champions League Final [...]

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Ole Gya debuterer i Adeccoligaen

August 5, 2011

Ole Gya, som dømte finalen på årets JET, har blitt tildelt adeccoligakampen mellom Asker og Alta nå på søndag. Gya får Rune Kjørstad og Birgitta Solberg som assistenter mens Rune Pedersen er veileder. Den talentfulle dommeren fra Rogaland dømte finalen mellom Strømsgodset og Viking tidligere denne sommeren, og har tydeligvis imponert nok til å bli [...]

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Attwell to referee Euro U-19 final

July 31, 2011

English match official Stuart Attwell has been appointed to Monday’s final between Spain and the Czech Republic in the U-19 European Championship currently being played in Romania. He will be assisted by Dimitriy Mosyakin from Russia and Lars Hummelgaard from Denmark. Artyom Kuchin of Kazakhstan will be the fourth official. This is Attwell’s third match in the [...]

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Salvio Fagundes to referee Copa America final

July 22, 2011

Brazilian referee Salvio Fagundes has been appointed to referee the final game of the 2011 Copa America between Uruguay and Paraguay. He will be assisted by Marcio Santiago (Brazil) and Francisco Modria (Chile). Enrique Osses (Chile) will act as fourth official. The third place match will be refereed by Wilmar Roland from Colombia. 24/7/11 Final Uruguay [...]

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Ole Gya med JET-finale

July 16, 2011

Ole Gya som dømmer for Helleland IL i Rogaland har blitt tildelt søndagens finale på JET. Jon Ophuus dømmer semifinale for andre året på rad mens Anders Gjermshus tar hånd om den andre semifinalen. Ole Martin Loe deltar i finalen som fjerdedommer. Ophuus var først satt opp som assistentdommer i Adeccoliga-kampen mellom Bryne og Hødd [...]

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Bibiana Steinhaus to referee Japan – USA

July 15, 2011

Bibiana Steinhaus has been appointed for the final match in the Women’s World Cup between Japan and USA. She will be assisted by Marina Wozniak and Katrin Rafalski. Jenny Palmqvist from Sweden will serve as fourth official, with Maria Luisa Gutierrez as the fifth official. She has previously refereed two matches in the group stage, [...]

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Massimo Busacca retires, moves into FIFA position

July 14, 2011

Fifa earlier today sent out a press release announcing that Massimo Busacca has been appointed Head of Fifa Refereeing Department. The 42-year-old Swiss official has retired from all refereeing and will now focus on developing referees for Fifa. Busacca has had an astonishing international career since joining the international list in 1999. In 2007 he refereed [...]

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Svein Oddvar Moen referees U-17 World Cup final

July 9, 2011

Svein Oddvar Moen has been appointed to the U-17 World Cup final between Uruguay and Mexico on Sunday. Moen will be assisted by Erwin Zeinstra and Kim Tomas Haglund. Bas Nijhuis will be the fourth official. The 32-year-old Norwegian has refereed two games earlier in the tournament, including the round of 16 match between Mexico [...]

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Uefa updates list for new season

July 8, 2011

Uefa has updated its referee list for the first half of the 2011/2012 season. Below you can find the Elite and Elite development categories. The only changes in the top category is that Cüneyt Cakir from Turkey has been promoted while Martin Hansson has been moved down to the First category. The categories were recently [...]

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Uefa reviews its referee list categories

July 6, 2011

At its recent meeting in Aarhus the Uefa referees committee reviewed its current referee categorisation for male and female referees. In the male category the Premier category was removed and Premier development has been renamed to Elite development. The category 2, 3 and 4 has been renamed to first, second and third. Referees who were [...]

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Hafsås og Hagen i Europa League

July 5, 2011

Dag Vidar Hafsås og Tom Harald Hagen har begge fått oppdrag i kvalifiseringen til Europa League. Hafsås dømmer andre kamp i første kvalifiseringsrunde mellom KR og ÍF med assistentene Leif Erik Opland og Magnus Lundberg, og Trond Ivar Døvle som fjerdedommer. Hagen tar hånd om første kamp i andre kvalifiseringsrunde mellom Śląsk og Dundee United. Han har [...]

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New referees committee set for 2011-2013

July 1, 2011

Uefa just announced the composition of their referees committee for the period 2011 – 2013. New faces are Yuri Basakov, Herbert Fandel, and Kurt Zuppinger. Chairman Angel María Villar Llona, Spain Deputy Chairman Şenes Erzik, Turkey Chief Refereeing Officer Pierluigi Collina, Italy Refereeing Officers Marc Batta, France Hugh Dallas, Scotland Members Yuri Basakov, Russia David [...]

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Roberto Rosetti moves into Russian football

June 29, 2011

Roberto Rosetti has been employed as the head of Russian refereeing. The Russian football union has acquired his services until 2015, and this appointment is a part of their preparation for the 2018 World Cup. Rosetti comes from administrative work with the Italian Football Federation where he was responsible for the referees in Serie B. [...]

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Christina Pedersen med sin første VM-kamp

June 29, 2011

Christina Pedersen har blitt tildelt sin første kamp i sommerens fotball-VM for kvinner. Hun dømmer kampen mellom Japan og Mexico fredag 1. juli. Med seg har hun Hege Steinlund og Lada Rojc fra Kroatia. Pedersen og team dømte i fjor semifinalen i U20-VM i Tyskland. Steinlund deltok i VM i Kina i 2007 hvor hun [...]

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Trygve Kjensli med debut i Tippeligaen

June 27, 2011

Nesodden-dommer Trygve Kjensli får onsdag sin Tippeliga-debut som hoveddommer når han dømmer kampen mellom Fredrikstad og Haugesund. Han assisteres av FIFA-assistentdommer Geir Åge Holen og Kim Andre Johnsen. 39-åringen har dømt i Norges nest øverste divisjon siden 2007 og hadde i fjor en meget god sesong med fløyta. Det er tydelig at han har fulgt [...]

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Joel Aguilar to referee Gold Cup final

June 25, 2011

Salvadoran Joel Aguilar has been appointed to referee the Gold Cup final between USA and Mexico on Saturday. He will be assisted by Canadian Hector Vergara and fellow Salvadoran William Torres with Walter Lopez from Guatemala as fourth official. The 36-year-old has been an international referee since 2001, and was present at the 2010 World [...]

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Tagliavento to referee U-21 final in Denmark

June 23, 2011

Paolo Tagliavento from Italy has been appointed to the Euro U-21 final between Switzerland and Spain on Saturday. He will be assisted by Damien McGrath from Ireland and Vyatautas Simkus from Lithuania. The 38-year-old from Terni in Italy has been an international referee since 2007, but only recently got his debut in the Champions League. [...]

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Dommere til JET 2011 klare

June 17, 2011

NFF har publisert listen over dommere og assistentdommere som skal til årets eliteturnering på Hamar. JET er en eliteturnering som arrangeres hvert år med juniorlag fra Norge og noen invitert lag fra utlandet. Turneringen brukes a NFF til å kartlegge dommertalentene i de forskjellige kretsene. Det er en unik mulighet for dommerne som deltar, og [...]

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