In a historic precedent in the FIFA World Cup, women will have a stake in the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup as 6 women will participate as referees, including three in the arena and three as assistant referees.
France’s Stephanie Frapar, Rwandan Salima Mukansanga and Japan’s Yamashita Yoshimi are on the list of 36 referees selected by FIFA, with three more women participating as assistant referees.
The head of the Italian refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, said earlier on the matter: “For the first time in history, women referee some of the matches in a tournament, and this is only the fruit of the tireless efforts made a few years ago to publish female referees in FIFA tournaments for young and old men.”
Collina continued: “By this we clearly confirm that all that matters to us is quality, not gender, and I hope that in the future the presence of female referees in the elite matches of the most important men’s competitions will be seen as a natural thing. because they have the right to be in the World Cup because they play their roles consistently and at a very high level.”
The Referee Committee announced the lists of referees, so 36 referees, 69 assistant referees and 24 video referees were selected in cooperation with the six continental federations “on the basis of the quality of these referees and their performance in FIFA tournaments and other international and local competitions”. in past years.”
The list of 36 rulers of the arena included Qatari Abdul Rahman Jassim, Algerian Mustafa Gorbal and Emirati Muhammad Abdullah from the Arab region.
french stephanie
French Stephanie Frapper was the first woman to officiate a Ligue 1 match in 2019 and she officiated the Women’s World Cup final in the same year as well as the same year’s European Supermatch between Liverpool and Chelsea and in 2020 she led the Champions League match.
Japanese Yamashita
She left her day job as a fitness coach to take up refereeing, becoming the first woman to referee an AFC Champions League game in 2019.
Rwandan Mukansanjna
She dreamed of becoming a basketball player, but last January she became the first woman to officiate a CAF Champions League match.
