36 referees, 69 assistant referees, and 24 video match officials were appointed

Posted by World Wide Tickets And Hospitality on May 21st, 2022

The FIFA Referees Committee announced the shortlisted names of selected FIFA World Cup 2022 referees. 36 referees, 69 assistant referees, and 24 VMO officials in close collaboration with six organizations, based on their quality and performance in FIFA competitions and other international and domestic competitions in recent years.

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As always, the terms we used are quality first’ and the match officials selected to represent the highest quality referee in the world said Qatar World Cup 2022 Referees Committee chairman Pierluigi Collina. The 2018 FIFA World Cup has been a huge success, thanks to the high level of refereeing, and we will do our best to get even better in a few months in Qatar.

The Road to Qatar World Cup 2022 project has already begun in 2019, as more than 50 trios are considered potential candidates and undergoing extensive preparation. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, however, this preparation was anything but simple, as the activities of existence were suspended for a long time.

The epidemic affected our activities, especially in 2020 and early 2021. Fortunately, the Football World Cup was still a long way off, and we had plenty of time to provide the candidates with good preparation. We are announcing these elections early as we want to work very hard with all the FIFA World Cup nominees, watching them in the coming months. For more to know about Qatar World Cup tickets Click here.

The message is clear, don\'t give up, keep working hard and prepare well for the World Cup, said Collina. Selected game officials will participate in early summer at several conferences in Asunción, Madrid, and Doha, review and analyze video clips of the game\'s realities, and participate in practical lessons with players, which will be recorded so that participants can get a quick response from teachers.

The main focus of the preparations is still to protect the players and the image of the game, consistency, similarity, learning the game from a technical point of view, and understanding the diversity of the players and the team, said Massimo Busacca, FIFA\'s Refereeing Director.

We cannot eliminate all mistakes, but we will do everything we can to minimize them. The VAR system was used for the first time at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and four years later, a team of 24 VMOs will be based in Qatar, ready to provide technical support to their colleagues on the field. , if necessary.  

Due to the limited number of FIFA member organizations that used the VAR system at the time, VMOs in Russia 2018 were preferred mainly in Europe and South America. Today, the VAR system is used in all major tournaments around the world, and VMOs from Asia, Africa, and North and North America will also participate in the Qatar World Cup 2022.

For the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup, the FIFA Referees Committee re-appointed three female referees and three assistant referees. We are thrilled that Stéphanie Frappart of France, Salima Mukansanga of Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamashita of Japan, and assistant referee Neuza Back of Brazil, Karen Díaz Medina of Mexico, and Kathryn Nesbitt of the USA, were able to call.

Officials of the women\'s match for the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup. This ends a long process that began a few years ago with the appointment of a female referee for the FIFA junior and senior men\'s tournaments. In this way, we clearly emphasize that it is quality that is important to us and not genders.

I can hope that in the future, the selection of top female sporting directors in important men\'s tournaments will be regarded as normal and irrelevant. They deserve to be in the FIFA World Cup 2022 because they are always at the top, and that is an important factor for us, concludes FIFA Referees Committee chairman Pierluigi Collina.

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