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Referees in the media (week 31)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “Yet there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of her. And that’s a good thing because Seitz is a referee, and for an official, anonymity is often the reward for a job well done.” Los Angelos Times journalist Kevin Baxter about Kari Seitz, US referee in her third consecutive Olympic soccer tournament. “It’s my hope in my lifetime that we get some women referees in the World Cup (for men, jth).” Kari Seitz realizes that things ‘don’t happen overnight’, but…
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Facts about referees in World Cup finals
Some more statistics about the World Cup. Fifa announced today that Howard Webb will get the final of 2010’s World Cup in South Africa. The last English referee was Jack Taylor in the match between The Netherlands and West Germany. In all 19 WC finales (including 2010) there were 4 referees from Britain. Referees in World Cup finals 2010 Howard Webb (England) 2006 Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) 2002 Pierluigi Collina (Italy) 1998 Said Belgola (Marocco) 1994 Sandor Puhl (Hungary) 1990 Edgardo Codesal Mendez (Mexico) 1986 Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil) 1982 Arnaldo Coelho (Brazil) 1978 Sergio Gonella (Italy) 1974 Jack Taylor (England) 1970 Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany) 1966 Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland) 1962…
