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Golden medal for the referees at the World Cup
Unlike goalies and the Jabulani ball, the referees are going unnoticed at the World Cup. Written by Valdir Bicudo, a befriended Brazilian journalist and referee commentator at Parana Online. It’s his round-up after the first round at this World Cup. In an interview with Fifa spokesman Nicolaz Maingot last Tuesday, when he traveled between Pretoria and Johannesburg, told that the performance of referees and assistants in the early matches of World Cup in South Africa were highly impressive. According to Maingot, Fifa, the entity that handles the football on the planet, has done efforts as never showed before to improve arbitration at the World Cup. For example the implementation of…
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World Cup referees are important for New Zealand
Two head referees from the same country at the same World Cup tournament is quite unique. This year there are three countries which provide more than one refereeing team: Uruguay (Larrionda and Vazquez), Mexico (Archundia and Rodriguez) and New Zealand (Hester and O’Leary). The situation for the latter country is a more exceptional. There was never a referee from the New Zealand leading a match. Michael Hester from Auckland (NZ) had the premiere in last week’s World Cup match between South Korea and Greece. The Dutch Referee blog contacted Ken Wallace, the New Zealand Football Referee Development Officer. In this interview he talks about about refereeing in New Zealand and…
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Harkam is already preparing for next season
Interview with Austrian Bundesliga referee Alexander Harkam. He tells about his future, career and World Cup referees.
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WC refs prepare in the luxury of hotel Kievits Kroon
Marketing & Sales manager Krista North from hotel Kievits Kroon about the residence of the referees in the World Cup.
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World Cup referees announced for first matches
Fifa confirmed that Ravshan Irmatov will be the referee of the opening at the World Cup between South Africa and Mexico. Referee Pozo from Chile is injured and has been replaced. See the revised list below: Match Referee (Country) South Africa – Mexico Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) Uruguay – France Yuichi Nishimura (Japan) Argentina – Nigeria Wolfgang Stark (Germany) Korea – Greece Michael Hester (New Zealand) England – USA Carlos Simon (Brazil) Algeria – Slovenia Carlos Alberto Batres (Chile) *See Update 2 below Germany – Australia Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Serbia – Ghana Hector Baldassi (Argentina) Netherlands – Denmark Stephane Lannoy (France) Japan – Cameroon Olegario Benquerenca (Portugal) Italy – Paraguay Benito…