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First female Fifa referee from Wales
Found a nice video online from referee Charlotte Carpenter. Who is that? you might think. She’ll introduce herself: “I am Charlotte Carpenter and I am the first female Fifa referee from Wales.” The 26-year-old is from Abercynon, a small town where also two of the nine male referees come from. Carpenter now joins Lewiss Edwards, Fifa Assistant Referee and Richard Harrington, who also became an international ref in 2015. Carpenter has only been a referee for three years and already got her Fifa badge. “”It’s craziness – I’m on cloud nine,” she told BBC. “This is my third season and it has been a rapid rise. I think the first…
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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.