World Cup referees announced
The last team to join the World Cup has been finally announced - the referees. According to Sepp Blatter they´re the cream of the crop in the world.
The 33rd team at the World Cup - the 23 referees in Germany - are currently the best match officials in the world.
The referees are told to judge strictly against any kind of time-wasting, reckless-playing, shirt pulling and diving. I was just wondering who´s gonna rule the Final on July 9th? Any predictions?
Here goes the list of the 23 officials:
- Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)
- Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)
- Benito Archundia (Mexico)
- Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
- Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)
- Coffi Codjia (Benin)
- Frank De Bleeckere* (Belgium)
- Massimo De Santis (Italy)
- Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
- Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
- Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
- Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)
- Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
- Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain)
- Markus Merk (Germany)
- Lubos Michel (Slovakia)
- Graham Poll (England)
- Eric Poulat (France)
- Peter Prendergast (Jamaica)
- Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
- Mark Shield (Australia)
- Carlos Simon (Brazil)
- Kyros Vassaras (Greece)
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