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The Rwandan football federation has published the list of match officials for the U-17 World Cup this summer. The tournament will be played in Mexico between 18th of June and 10th of July.

These tournaments are used by Fifa to assess the candidates for the upcoming World Cup in 2014, and it is extremely rare that referees are selected to a World Cup without having been to one of the major Fifa tournaments first.

The next major Fifa tournament for prospective World Cup referees are the U-20 World Cup in Colombia, July 29 – August 20.

AFC
Ali Hamad Albadwawi, United Arab Emirates
Nawaf Ghayyath Shukralla, Bahrain

Assistant referees
Yaser Khalil Abdulla Tulefat, Bahrain
Khaled Al Allan, Bahrain
Hamad Suliman Al Mayahi, Oman
Reza Sokhandan, Iran

CAF
Neant Alioum, Cameroon
Helder Martins de Carvalho, Angola

Assistant referees
Camara Djibril, Senegal
Kabanda Félicien, Rwanda
Aden Range Marwa, Kenya
Zakhele Siwela, South Africa

CONCACAF
Raymon Bogle, Jamaica
Roberto Garcia, Mexico

Assistant referees
Stephen Brown, Jamaica
Dion Neil, Trinidad and Tobago
Alejandro Ayala, Mexico
Victor Calderon, Mexico

CONMEBOL
Diego Abal, Argentina
Victor Carrillo, Peru
Omar Ponce, Ecuador

Assistant referees
Alejo Castany, Argentina
Gustavo Esquivel, Argentina
Jonny Bossio, Peru
Cesar Escano, Peru
Christian Lescano, Ecuador
Carlos Herrera, Ecuador

OFC
Andrew Achari, Fiji
Norbert Hautata, Tahiti

Assistant referees
Ashwin Kumar, Fiji
Ravinesh Kumar, Fiji
David Charles, Papua New Guinea
Mark Rule, New Zealand

UEFA
Tony Chapron, France
Pavel Kralovec, Czech Republic
Svein Oddvar Moen, Norway
Bas Nijihuis, Netherlands
Alexey Nikolaev, Russia
Stephan Studer, Switzerland

Assistant referees
Emmanuel Boisdenghien, France
Fredji Harchay, France
Martin Wilczek, Czech Republic
Miroslav Zlamal, Czech Republic
Frank Andås, Norway
Kim Thomas Haglund, Norway
Angelo Boonman, Netherlands
Erwin Zeinstra, Netherlands
Anton Aveianov, Russia
Tikhon Kalugin, Russia
Sandro Pozzi, Switzerland
Raffael Zeder, Switzerland

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