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The FIFA U-20 World Cup is set to start the 24th of September and FIFA has announced the complete list of referees with assistants. The tournament is set in Egypt and starts 24th of September with the final being played the 16th of October.

A good performance in a tournament like this will almost certainly secure you a place in the South Africa finals next year.

African zone
Referees
Mohamed BENOUZA, Algerie
Coffi CODJIA, Benin
Koman COULIBALY, Mali
Eddy MAILLET, Seychelles

Assistants
Nasser Sadek ABDEL NABI, Egypt
Redouane ACHIK, Marocco
Alexis FASSINOU, Benin
Desire GAHUNGU, Burundi
Ayuba HARUNA, Ghana
Bechir HASSANI, Tunisia
Evarist MENKOUANDE, Cameroon
Angesom OGBAMARIAM, Eritrea

Asian zone
Referees
Subkhiddin MOHD SALLEH, Malaysia
Yuichi NISHIMURA, Japan

Assistants
Thanom BORIKUT, Thailand
JEONG Hae Sang, Korea
MU Yuxin, China
Toru SAGARA, Japan

European zone
Referee teams (Referee, assistant, assistant)
Olegario BENQUERENCA, Bertino MIRANDA, Jose CARDINAL, Portugal
Ivan BEBEK, Tomislav PETROVIC, Tomislav SETKA, Croatia
Frank DE BLEECKERE, Peter HERMANS, Walter VROMANS, Belgium
Thomas EINWALLER, Roland HEIM, Norbert SCHWAB, Austria
Roberto ROSETTI, Stefano AYROLDI, Paolo CALCAGNO, Italy
Alberto UNDIANO, Fermin MARTINEZ, Juan Carlos YUSTE JIMENEZ, Spain

North, Central and Carribean zone
Referee teams (Referee, assistant, assistant)
Joel AGUILAR, William TORRES, Juan ZUMBA, El Salvador
Marco RODRIGUEZ, Jose Luis CAMARGO, Alberto MORIN, Mexico

Oceanian zone
Referee teams (Referee, assistant, assistant)
Peter O LEARY, Brent BEST, New Zealand, Matthew TARO, Solomon Islands

South American zone
Referee teams (Referee, assistant, assistant)
Hector BALDASSI, Ricardo CASAS, Hernan MAIDANA, Argentina
Jorge LARRIONDA, Mauricio ESPINOSA, Pablo FANDINO, Uruguay
Oscar RUIZ, Humberto CLAVIJO, Abraham GONZALEZ, Colombia

A couple of observations:

• Coffi Codjia, Eddy Maillet and Jorge Larrionda participated in the Confederations Cup earlier this year. Jorge Larrionda refereed the semi-final between Spain and USA.
• All referees are on the preselected list for World Cup 2010
• Roberto Rosetti was selected as the referee for the EURO 2008 final between Germany and Spain
• Frank De Bleeckere refereed the UEFA Super Cup in late August
• Alberto Undiano, Joel Aguilar and Peter O’Leary all participated in the last U-20 World Cup in Canada
• Jorge Larrionda, Coffi Codjia and Oscar Ruiz participated in the 2005 U-20 World Cup in Netherlands

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