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FIFA referees’ committee set

by Martin Rødvand on January 4, 2012

The new FIFA referees’ committee has been elected. This is the committee responsible for appointing referees to competitions organised by FIFA.

Chairman
Angel Maria Villar Llona, Spain

Deputy Chairman 
Michel D’Hooghe, Belgium
Zhang Jilong, China

Members competition
Peter Mikkelsen, Denmark
Carlos Batres, Guatemala
Lambert Maltock, Vanuatu
Tarek Bouchamaoui, Tunisia
Fatou Gaye, Senegal
Toru Kamikawa, Japan
Ingrid Jonsson, Sweden
Jorge Larrionda, Uruguay
Celestin Ntagungira, Rwanda
Jassim Mandi Abdul-Rahman, Bahrain
Alfredo Trentalange, Italy
Terence Babwah, Trinidad and Tobago

Members development
Belaid Lacarne, Algeria
Carlos Alarcon, Paraguay
Ted Howard, USA
Katriina Elovirta, Finland
Lee Harmon, Cook Islands
Jacqueline Leleu, Australia
Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh, Malaysia
Michael Riley, England
Michal Listkiewicz, Poland
Oscar Ruiz, Colombia
Hector Vergara, Canada
James Sekajugo, Uganda

Some of these names may be familiar to those who has been following international referees the last decade. Carlos Batres, Jorge Larrionda, Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh, Celestin Ntagungira, and Hector Vergara all participated in the last World Cup in South Africa.

Michael Riley is the manager of PGMOL, running the referees for the English Premier League. Toru Kamikawa refereed the third place match in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Peter Mikkelsen refereed in the 1990 and 1994 World Cup.

Ingrid Jonsson was one of the first women allowed to referee in a FIFA tournament, then as a linesman/lineswoman in 1991. Michał Listkiewicz refereed in the 1990 World Cup and subsequently became the president of the Polish FA.

(via @allaboutrefs)

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Irmatov to referee Club World Cup final

by Martin Rødvand on December 18, 2011

Ravshan Irmatov will referee the FIFA Club World Cup final between Santos and Barcelona later on today in Yokohama. He will be assisted by fellow countryman  Abdokhamidullo Rasulov and Kyrgyzstani referee Bakhadyr Kochkarov.  Kochkarov also assisted in the FIFA World Cup last year, a tournament where Irmatov refereed an impressive number of five matches in total.

Last year’s final referee, Yuichi Nishimura from Japan, will work as the fourth official in this final game of the tournament.

18/12/2011
Final
Santos – Barcelona
Referee: Ravshan Irmatov, Uzbekistan
Assistant referees: Abdokhamidullo Rasulov, Uzbekistan; Bakhadyr Kochkarov, Kyrgyzstan
Fourth official: Yuichi Nishimura, Japan
Fifth official: Toru Sagara, Japan

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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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Hafsås ny Fifa-dommer

December 15, 2010

Dag Vidar Hafsås har blitt ny Fifa-dommer melder fotball.no. 37-åringen fra Trondheim får med seg assistentdommeren Magnus Lundberg som to av tre nominert til Fifa-status denne sesongen. Hafsås har prestert bra de årene han har vært tippeligadommer og har denne sesongen vært med på flere kamper i Europa som ekstra assistentdommer. Han ble i 2009 [...]

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Blatter with apology for refereeing errors

June 29, 2010

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has issued an apology to Mexico and England after Sunday’s refereeing mistakes. In a round table discussion he also talked about re-opening the question about using technology to assist referees. The Ifab, with Fifa spearheading it, said a definite no to technology earlier this year. Neither the Uruguayan nor the Italian [...]

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World Cup referee hurt by Fifa suspension

May 12, 2010

Fifa announced Wednesday that the Salvadoran Football Association is suspended due to government interference. If the authorities do not revise their position by June 8th, the Fifa Executive Committee will propose to extend the suspension. This suspension makes it impossible for members of the Salvadoran Football Association to represent their country in any regional or [...]

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Webb chosen for U-17 World Cup

July 26, 2009

Howard Webb, together with his assistants Mike Mullarkey and Darren Cann, will be participating in the FIFA U-17 World Cup this October and November. The English team will be in Nigeria from the 18th of October and may miss almost a month of Premier League football if they proceed to the final stage of the [...]

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Referees forced to withdraw after injuries

June 7, 2009

Two of the ten trios appointed to referee in the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa this June was forced to withdraw after a fitness test. Carlos Batres from Guatamala and Carlos Amarilla from Paraguay both suffered injuries during the test. Carlos Batres’ team has been replaced by Benito Archundia from Mexico while Pablo Pozo [...]

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Additional assistants to be used in the Europa League

June 1, 2009

After the IFAB in February approved the use of additional assistants it’s now being reported that the first professional league to benefit from this experiment will be the Europa League (previously the UEFA Cup). Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, confirmed this under a two-day meeting of FIFA’s executive committee in Nassau. This means that [...]

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Terje Hauge dømmer VM-kvalifiseringskamp

January 23, 2009

Norges Fotballforbund skriver: FIFA har oppnevnt Terje Hauge til å dømme VM-kvalifiseringkampen Wales – Tyskland 1. april. Dommer: Terje Hauge (Olsvik IL) Assistentdommere: Steinar Holvik (Sandane TIL) og Dag Roger Nebben (Åsa IL) Fjerdedommer: Tommy Skjerven (Kaupanger IL) Wales og Tyskland møttes 15. oktober i en kamp som endte med en knepen 1-0 seier til tyskerne. [...]

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