Women referees to officiate at men’s World Cup finals for first time

Female referees have been selected to officiate at a men’s World Cup finals for the first time.
Stephanie Frappart of France, Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamashita from Japan have been included on Fifa’s official list of 36 referees for the tournament in Qatar later this year.
Three women are also on the list of 69 assistant referees — Neuza Back from Brazil, Karen Diaz Medina from Mexico and Kathryn Nesbitt from the United States.
“This concludes a long process that began several years ago with the deployment of female referees at Fifa men’s junior and senior tournaments,” the chairman of Fifa’s referees’ committee Pierluigi Collina said.
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