The 38 Refs Shortlisted for World Cup 2010
Remember World Cup 2006? There was some questionable refereeing. Not least of which was Graham Poll showing Croatia’s Josip Simunic three yellow cards in one game. Points for creativity Graham, but in hindsight the World Cup finals was probably the wrong place to try out your new system.
There were also a record four reds and sixteen yellows in the Portugal vs Netherlands game, which we can all agree was just plain silly.
FIFA will eventually trim this list of 38 down to an expected 20 or so actual World Cup referees, so fingers crossed they make the right choices and we spend the tournament talking about the football and not the decisions.
Here’s the list (and no, Graham Poll isn’t on there)…
Europe
Olegario Bartolo F. Benquerenca, Portugal
Ivan Bebek, Croatia
Massimo Busacca, Switzerland
Frank De Bleekere, Belgium
Thomas Einwaller, Austria
Grzegorz Gilewski, Poland
Martin Hansson, Sweden
Viktor Kassai, Hungary
Stephane Lannoy, France
Tom Ovrebo, Norway
Roberto Rosetti, Italy
Wolfgang Stark, Germany
Alberto Undiano Mallenco, Spain
Howard Webb, England
South America
Carlos Amarilla Demarqui, Paraguay
Hector Baldassi, Argentina
Jorge Larrionda, Uruguay
Pablo Pozo Quinteros, Chile
Oscar Ruiz Acosta, Colombia
Carlos Simon, Brazil
Martin Vazquez Broquetas, Uruguay
Asia
Khalil Al Ghamdi, Saudi Arabia
Matthew Breeze, Australia
Ravshan Irmatov, Uzbekistan
Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh, Malaysia
Yuichi Nishimura, Japan
Africa
Mohamed Benouza, Algeria
Coffi Codjia, Benin
Koman Coulibaly, Mali
Jerome Damon, South Africa
Eddy Maillet, Seychelles
North, Central America, Caribbean:
Joel Aguilar Chicas, El Salvador
Benito Archundia Tellez, Mexico
Carlos Batres Gonzalez, Guatemala
Jair Marrufo, United States
Marco Rodriguez Moreno, Mexico
Australia and South Pacific
Michael Hester, New Zealand
Peter O’Leary, New Zealand
Official FIFA pdf of prospective refs is here.
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I guess it isn’t too surprising that Howard Webb is our representitive, probably the most athoritive ref we have if nothing else




Hope Rosetti makes it, he’s a great ref with plenty of experience and usually a level head, in my opinion at least.
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mele, it’s tough to cheer for Italian referees. Usually, their progress in the playoffs round is inversely proportional to that of the Azzurri.




Lots of South American refs: Cool. I would maybe not have gone for Stephane Lannoy though, I would prefer Duhamel.




I’m surprised Byron Mereno isn’t on the list.
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good referees will make games better. Good move.


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