Ladies to referee for the primary time in FIFA world cup finals

France’s Stephanie Frappart, Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda, and Japan’s Yoshimi Yamashita are among the many 36 match referees.

Brazil’s Neuza Again, Mexico’s Karen Diaz Medina and American Kathryn Nesbitt have been included within the 69 assistant referees.

“We’re very glad that … we now have been in a position to name up feminine match officers for the primary time within the historical past of a FIFA World Cup,” stated FIFA Referees Committee Chairman Pierluigi Collina.

“This concludes a protracted course of that started a number of years in the past with the deployment of feminine referees at FIFA males’s junior and senior tournaments.

“On this approach, we clearly emphasise that it’s high quality that counts for us and never gender. I might hope that sooner or later, the number of elite ladies’s match officers for vital males’s competitions will probably be perceived as one thing regular and now not as sensational.”

All match officers for the finals will take part in early summer time seminars in Asuncion, Madrid and Doha.

“We will’t eradicate all errors, however we are going to do all the things we are able to to scale back them,” stated Massimo Busacca, FIFA’s Director of Refereeing.