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New referees in Europe’s highest leagues
European qualification matches already started and some competitions will kick-off this weekend. Here are the new referees at the national top levels. If you miss something, let me know. Netherlands New in the senior referee group is Serdar Gözübüyuk, who holds many Dutch refereeing records, being the youngest referee ever officiating at the highest level in the Netherlands. Assistants Charl Schaap en Hessel Steegstra moved up to the highest level as well. Referee Ben Haverkort retired and has already started as commercial manager at FC Groningen, a club in the highest league. Austria New: Dominik Ouschan End of career: Bernhard Brugger (next December) Relegated: – Source: Announcement ÖFB Belgium No…
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Five minor changes on women’s international list
The new women’s uefa referee list provides only five minor changes. The elite and first group keep the same. The only difference with the list of earlier this year is the promotion of five referees from the Third to the Second Group. Their names are: Severine Zinch from France, Marte Soro from Norway, Monica Mularczyk from Poland, Simona Ghisletta from Switzerland and Pernilla Larsson from Sweden. Women’s Elite Group No changes in this group compared to first list of 2011. 1 AUT Schett Tanja 09.07.1974 2 CZE Damkova Dagmar 29.12.1974 3 ENG Ihringova Alexandra 29.01.1975 4 FIN Heikkinen (Savolainen) Kirsi 26.09.1978 5 GER Baitinger (Beck) Christine 02.03.1974 6 GER Steinhaus…
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Cakir only new Elite referee for 2011/2012 season
The only new referee on Uefa’s Elite list for 2011/2012 season is Cüneyt Cakir. He replaces Martin Hansson who relegated two groups. Pavel Kralovec from Czech Republic is the only new official in the Elite Development group, the new name of the Premier Development group. Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixao from Portugal and Christian Balaj from Romania relegated from that category to the ‘First Group’. Uefa has reviewed it’s referee categories, which makes it a little differnt. New ranks are: Elite, Elite Development, First, Second and Third. That means most groups got renamed, and the Premier group was removed. Referees from that category are now re-allocated to either Elite Development or…
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Uefa released new futsal international referee list
Uefa has released the new international futsal’s referee list. Check the lists below: Premier Most referees on the highest futsal refereeing level come from Spain and Croatia (2 per country). Category two Youngest referee on the list is Gerald Blauernfeind from Austria with 29 years. Oldest referee is Francisco Jose Seca Parrinha from Portugal who is 44 years old. Category three A huge list with 54 lists. Check the men’s international football list here Check the women’s international football list here
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Uefa released new women’s international referee listv
Uefa has released the new international women’s referee list. Check the lists below: Elite With three referees (of 18) who come from Romania. The youngest referees are Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine) and Christina Westrum Pedersen (Norway) with 29 years old. Premier Referees are all from different countries. Oldest referee with 43 years old is Ann-Helen Østervold from Norway. Category two With the highest ranked referee from The Netherlands, Sjoukje de Jong. Katalin Kulcsar from Hungary is only 25 years old. Category three With three Greece referees. More on women’s refereeing in the article about the U20 Women’s World Cup in Germany earlier this month.
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New international referee list: Blom and Rocchi Elite
Uefa has released the new international referee list to the Dutch Referee blog. Kevin Blom (NED) and Gianluca Rocchi (ITA) are new on the Elite list of European referees. They replace Manuel Enrique Mejuto Gonzalez, who reached the age limit, and Tom Henning Øvrebø, who quits international refereeing after he was not picked for the World Cup in South Africa. He was non-eligible for Euro 2012 due to Uefa’s age limit of 45. Update Uefa: “Fifa will replace Rosetti in January for another Italian referee. Uefa has no country quota’s, so everyone could replace him.” On Thursday 8th of July Roberto Rosetti announced that he stops refereeing in favour of…
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Update: 10 referees available for final
The Fifa has reduced the referee squad in South Africa from 29 to 19 referees. Here’s the list with referees who are still in the tournament (and between brackets who are sent home). Update: Only 10 referees are still eligible for the final. Asia Irmatov Nishimura (Mohd Salleh is sent home before QF; Al Ghamdi before semi-finals) Africa Damon (Coulibaly is sent home before QF; Maillet before semi-finals) North America Archundia Rodriguez (Aguilar is sent home before QF; Batres before semi-finals) South America Pozo Ruiz (Vazquez and Larrionda are sent home before QF; Baldassi and Simon before semi-finals) Oceania No referee any more (O’Learry is sent home before QF; Hester…
