News broke recently that 38-year-old Frenchwoman Stéphanie Frappart will be the first woman to officiate as center referee during a men’s World Cup match.
Stéphanie Frappart has already made her debut in Qatar 2022, as she was the fourth official in the Mexico-Poland group stage match in the first round.
However, the game on December 1 will be very different, since Frappart will be the first woman to referee a match in the men’s World Cup in the match between Germany and Costa Rica, at the Al-Bayt stadium in Al Khor, in Qatar.
First referee in the French second division (2014), then in the men’s Ligue 1 (2019), in the European Super Cup (2019), in the Champions League (2020) and in the French Cup final (2022), Stéphanie will continue to make history in Qatar 2022.
In addition, the FIFA video game included her in its latest edition as a top-level match referee, something that is about to happen in real life.
At 38 years old, Stéphanie Frappart is one of the six women selected among the 36 field referees of this World Cup and one of the three, together with the Rwandan Salima Mukansanga and the Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita, to be central referees.
This Thursday, for the first time, an all-female trio of referees will take charge of a men’s @FIFA World Cup tournament. Stéphanie Frappart will be joined by assistants Neuza Back and Karen Díaz in supervision @fedefutbolcrc against @DFB_Team. Making history!
On the other hand, it is important to mention that in the match between Costa Rica and Germany, on the third day of Group E, Stéphanie Frappart will be assisted by the Brazilian Neuza Back and the Mexican Karen Díaz Medina, as well as the Honduran Said Martínez as fourth referee. .
In the particular case of Karen, she will make her debut as a linesman, being the only Mexican among the six women to be part of the refereeing staff for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Source: Okchicas
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