This Monday, FIFA announced the list of judges who will be present at the tournament which will take place in Australia and New Zealand.
The Australia and New Zealand Women’s World Cup 2023 is slowly taking shape. This Monday, FIFA communicated on its official website the list of referees who will be responsible for directing the actions during the competition. .
The presence of three national judges is distinguished. Maria Belen Carvajal, Loreto Toloza and Leslie Vasquez They will be the national representatives of the tournament which will take place from July 20 to August 20 this year.
Carvajal joins the list of main and reserve referees, while Toloza and Vásquez do so as assistants.
After a joint evaluation with the confederations, FIFA chose 33 referees, 55 assistants and 19 members for the video refereeing.
“As always, we used quality criteria first and foremost. For this reason, the referees selected in the field represent the best of world refereeing. began by saying Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, on the official website.
“We all remember the Women’s World Cup which took place in France in 2019. The exceptional quality of the refereeing contributed to the resounding success of the competition. At the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023, we intend to repeat it and convince again with the excellent performance of the referees.”
“Although the Covid-19 epidemic hampered our work, we had time to provide candidates with adequate preparation. Now, as with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, we are announcing appointments well in advance to work decisively and purposefully with those selected to referee the Women’s World Cup, and to monitor their progress in the coming months. . We expect rigorous preparation from the referees for a competition that FIFA and its President hold in high esteem,” Collina said.
In turn, Kari Seitz, head of women’s refereeing at FIFA, stressed that the judges will continue to receive support from the organization in their preparation.
“Because we wasted valuable time during the pandemic, we developed new programs to accelerate candidate preparation. For example, as part of our successful monitoring and support program, a FIFA trainer was assigned to each of the referees, who provided monthly evaluations of matches in which their mentee participated. This program will continue to be decisive in the final phase of preparations for the FIFA Women’s World Cup,” he said.
It is now planned that in January and February, the selected referees will participate in the preparation seminars which will be given in Doha and Montevideo, to review and analyze videos of real games and carry out training sessions with the participation of players who will be recorded in order to that the instructors can better assess them.
Las Rojas expect playoff rival
The national team is seeded to contest the playoffs for a World Cup spot in Australia and New Zealand. As seeded, the national team was placed in Group B of the playoffs, along with Senegal and Haiti. Therefore, one of these teams will face Chile .
The 10 teams were divided into three zones. C ended up with four teams and two seeds: Chinese Taipei and Papua New Guinea. In the procedure, FIFA applied the general principle of preventing two teams from the same confederation from being in the same group. That said, Paraguay, the other South American representative in the playoffs, is in zone C.
The mini tournament will take place in New Zealand, from February 17 to 23. The 18 will take place the confrontation between the Senegalese and the Haitians, at the North Harbor Stadium in Auckland. Those who will win this crossing will be the rivals of Chile, on Wednesday February 22, 2023, also in Auckland.
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