France’s Stephanie Frappart will become the first girl to referee a match on the males’s World Cup after being chosen to take cost of Thursday’s conflict between Germany and Costa Rica.
The 38-year-old will lead an all-female on-field workforce for the Group E match at Al Bayt Stadium, with Brazil’s Neuza Back and Mexican Karen Diaz Medina chosen as her assistants.
Frappart has already made historical past on the tournament, having become the first female official for a males’s World Cup match when she was fourth official for the goalless draw between Mexico and Poland final Tuesday.
FIFA named three female referees on its record of 36 for the competitors, with Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga and Yoshimi Yamashita of Japan additionally in Qatar.
The French official has already written her identify into the historical past books. In March 2021, she grew to become the first female referee to take cost of a males’s World Cup Qualifier because the Netherlands beat Latvia 2-0 in Amsterdam.
In December 2020 she grew to become the first female official to take cost of a males’s Champions League match when Italian champions Juventus defeated Ukrainian membership Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 in the group stage in Turin.
She additionally refereed the Super Cup match between Liverpool and Chelsea in 2019, and the ladies’s World Cup remaining between the US and the Netherlands the identical 12 months.
Ahead of the beginning of the tournament, Frappart mentioned she hoped the inclusion of female referees in Qatar would “make things happen” on a broader stage. “It’s a strong sign from FIFA and the authorities to have women referees in that country,” she mentioned.
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