Four Americans, including center referee Tori Penso, will be officiating Sunday's Women's World Cup final between Spain and England in a historic first.
Penso learned of her selection when Pierluigi Collina, head of the FIFA referees committee, stood before a meeting of World Cup officials and said he wanted to apologize for committing to have the center referee wear black Sunday.
“To be in a room with many of my mentors, peers, colleagues, who have had an amazing tournament, it really was a very special moment for me,” she said. “All of us were salivating at the opportunity and the chance and when he flipped that over to showcase my name, I melted.” But the turning point in her career came during the last Women’s World Cup in France, which Penso watched on television while cradling her infant daughter, Brinley. If she wanted to break through as an official, she decided, she would have to quit her day job at an advertising agency and dedicate herself to soccer, just as her husband, Chris Penso, a former Ohio highway patrolman and an MLS referee since 2011, had done.
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