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In association football, the referee is the person responsible for interpreting and enforcing the Laws of the Game during a match. The referee is the final decision-making authority on all facts connected with play, and is the match official with the authority to start and stop play and impose disciplinary action against players and coaches ...
Pierluigi Collina (Italian pronunciation: [ˌpjɛrluˈiːdʒi kolˈliːna]; born 13 February 1960) is an Italian former football referee.He was named "The World's Best Referee" by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics six consecutive times from 1998 to 2003.
Drawing of a typical soccer ball. See image:Soccerball shade.svg for a shaded version. This file is from the Open Clip Art Library , which released it explicitly into the public domain ( see here ) .
Michelle Pye (born 1978) is a Canadian soccer referee. She was given her international badge by FIFA in 2007. [1] Pye is one of only seven international soccer referees in Canada. [2] She began her career as an official in Kamloops, British Columbia in the mid-1990s. Since age 13 she has worked her way up to the highest level possible for a ...
O'Neill was an assistant referee in the UEFA Women's Champions League, refereeing nine Champions League matches between 2011 and 2019. [5] O'Neill began her career as an international match referee in 2013 with a 2015 World Cup qualifying match between the Netherlands and Albania, [6] running the line for six matches in these qualifications.
José María García-Aranda Encinar (born 3 March 1956 in Madrid) is a retired football (soccer) referee from Spain, best known for supervising three matches during the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. He also led two matches at the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship held in Belgium and the Netherlands .
Allen Chapman (born August 18, 1974) is an American soccer referee employed by PRO. He primarily officiates in Major League Soccer. During an August 2016 USL match in New Jersey, Chapman became the first video assistant referee to be used during a professional match. [1] Chapman was named MLS Referee of the Year in 2017 and 2019. [2]
Arnaldo David Cézar Coelho (born 15 January 1943) is a former football referee.He was the first Brazilian, indeed the first non-European, to take charge of the FIFA World Cup final when he officiated in the 1982 final between Italy and West Germany.