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Mukansanga, Frappart, Yamashita… meet the first female referees to officiate at men’s World Cup

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is a competition of many firsts — the first Mundial to be held in the middle east, the first to fall into the winter season and the first-ever to include female referees. 

Throughout the 92-year history of the men’s World Cup, Qatar would be the first time women will be listed among the officials to handle games.

Six out of 36 officials in Qatar are women, further shattering another glass ceiling of gender inclusion in the world’s most popular sport. Three of the women; Yoshimi Yamashita, Salima Mukansanga & Stephanie Frappart are referees who will be in charge of games at the World Cup.

Through the next one month, these trailblazers will be seen orchestrating matches and imposing FIFA rules on some of the biggest names in football. Below are short profiles of the three female referees set to break records in Qatar:

Stéphanie Frappart
Frappart is a French official who began refereeing at the age of 13. Her passion for football was fueled by her father, an amateur player for a local team in her Herblay-Sur-Seine community.

She sacrificed her passion for playing the game to nurturing the awareness and decision-making that makes a good referee, and her decision began bearing fruits early.

At just 18, she was already officiating matches for the national U-19 league. By 2011, Frappart was promoted to the Championnat National, the third division of the men’s football league in France.

She became the first female referee in the Ligue 2 division three years later. The burden failed to slow her down, as she was regarded as one of the best officials in the league.

In 2019, she was promoted to the Ligue 1 as the first female referee in the French’s top division. Later that year, Frappart became the first female referee to handle a major men’s European match when she was named to officiate the 2019 UEFA Super Cup between Liverpool and Chelsea. She went on to become the first female referee to officiate a UEFA Champions League game and men’s FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Salima Mukansanga

Mukansanga was born in Rusizi District, West Province, a city about five hours away from Kigali, the Rwandan capital, and football was not her first love.

She loved basketball, but access to the necessary facilities made her quit, as her attention shifted to football.Mukansanga decided to become a referee earlier in life, but her dream was nearly cut short after the Rwandan FA refused her licence due to her age.

However, she overcame the barrier and taught herself the laws of the game to improve her knowledge and abilities.What followed was a litany of successes: her FIFA badge arrived in 2012, and she became a mainstay in the Rwanda league games before continental appearances.

In Tokyo 2021, Mukansanga became the first African woman to be the centre referee of a quarter-final match of the women’s football event at the Olympics.
A few months later, at the 2022 African Cup of Nations (AFCON), she also became the first woman to officiate a match in the competition.

Yoshimi Yamashita

Yamashita is almost the Asian replica of Frappart. Her rise to the summit of the world footballing community has fetched her fame and accolades.

Earlier this year, she became the first woman to officiate a match in the J-League, Japan’s first division.The Japanese also became the first woman to handle an Asian Champions League (AFC) match.

https://www.thecable.ng/mukansanga-frappart-yamashita-meet-the-first-female-referees-to-officiate-at-mens-world-cup/amp

Many hearty congratulations to our women folks for these upgrading @ the FIFA badging. May it translate to more better improving in football.

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Wahala dey o.

Can't wait for the world cup to begin

At least the slime one's and not the backside heavy carrier's.

This is how fight starts underground, when it is FEMALE WC they should field the male refrees also.

Do we also have male referees officiating female football matches? Or It is just the equality for women but none for men?

The female referees seemed to have fared better. Stephanie Frappart became the first female referee to officiate a match at the men’s World Cup when she took charge of the Group F match between Germany and Costa Rica.

Out of a total of 36 referees selected for the World Cup, six were women, Stephanie Frappart (France), Karen Diaz Medina (Mexico), Neuza Back (Brazil), Salima Mukasanga (Rwanda), Kathryn Nesbitt (America) and Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan), paving the way for a whole generation of female referees, with their professional outing at the World Cup.

https://www.thecable.ng/fifa-world-cup-2022-a-review/amp nlfpmod

Damnnn niggar
Just imagine

Tournament way don finish

Na now he dey make front page

Ok

Be prudent. Learn how to manage.

Ok

My own is that: I hope they will allow men officiate in female football too, if not they will drag feminism into football...

When it's time for female World Cup or tournament.. hope male referees will be allowed as well?
Your guess is as good as mine ...

Someone high brought this to front page days after the world cup ended

This is not a good idea

Men of this generation foolishly giving women their power.

We don't want unnecessary sentiments tomorrow o. Something a footballer would do to a male referee if he does it to a female referee now, we would hear "violence on women"

edoncast:
Since my first day on nairaland in 2006,I know Seun osewa mods are run-away patients of psychiatric hospitals .The only sensible one among them is lalasticlala and he have already been sacked .


Nairaland is now a forum full of retards

Seun Osewa and other people moderators,
Over to you.

Nice officiating displayed by those babes.

[quote author= post=119304354]Seun Osewa and other people moderators,
Over to you.[/quote]Imagine a mod just bringing this topic to front page after the world cup already ended .

What do you term that bro ?

Is that not the doing of psychiatric patients

Solid.
Progress, change.

Correct.

My job is to remind some people that:

edoncast:
Imagine a mod just bringing this topic to front page after the world cup already ended .

What do you term that bro ?

Is that not the doing of psychiatric patients

You know what you are doing is against rule 20 of this forum?
Do you even read the rules and regulations guiding this forum?