Stéphanie Frappart, Neuza Back and Karen Diaz are set to oversee Thursday's match between Costa Rica and Germany.
“The men’s World Cup is the most important sporting competition in the world. I was the first [female] referee in France and in Europe, so I know how to deal with it,”Neuza Back, of Brazil, and Mexico’s Karen Diaz Medina will be assisting Frappart in the match.Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, saidA fourth female match official, Kathryn Nesbitt of the United States, will be working at the Al Bayt Stadium as the offside specialist in the video review team.
Four-time World Cup winner Germany is at the bottom of Group E and needs to beat Costa Rica to have any hope of advancing to the round of 16. The match is set to take place on Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar. The starting 11 of the German national soccer team are photographed protesting FIFA's ban on captain Manuel Neuer wearing the rainbow"OneLove" armband in Qatar.The 2022 World Cup has been mired in controversy ever since 2010, when Qatar was chosen as the host, due to the country’s human rights record and the fact that homosexuality is outlawed there. Recently,
if its players wore rainbow-printed “OneLove” armbands to support LGBTQ rights in Qatar. Players who break the rules will get yellow cards during the tournament.
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