2010 FIFA World Cup officials
The list of referee assignments at the Football World Cup 2010 performs all the referees that were used in the Football World Cup 2010 from 11 June to 11 July 2010 in South Africa.
General
After a first part of the FIFA list was compiled by Referee candidates in 2008, a first squad list was announced on 22 October 2009. The referees and their assistants were subjected to in-depth training and performance tests. At the end was a selection of 30 referee teams. Since two assistant referees failed the final fitness test, the referee Mohamed Benouza (Algeria) and Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay ) have been deleted from the list. Beneficiaries of this measure was the Uruguayan Martín Vázquez, who was re-nominated. Finally, a 29 referee teams were convened. Of these, however, only 24 teams for the management of the 64 matches were used, while five referees were considered "replacement" and only came as fourth official for use. It was noteworthy that only 15 teams came from a country, while nine teams have been compiled from different nations; five of these teams were composed of three different nations.
The average age of all referee was 40.0 years, with the Brazilian Carlos Simon was the youngest referee with almost 45 years of the oldest game manager and the Uzbek Ravshan Ermatov with just under 33 years. Elder assistant referee was the Swiss Franc Buragina 44.5 years, while Juan Zumba from El Salvador with almost 28 years was the youngest.
Surprisingly, the only 32 -year-old Uzbek Ravshan Ermatov was entrusted not only with the guidance of the opening game between South Africa and Mexico, he also had to have five operations, the most game lines. It benefited from the fact that some well-known referee Jorge Larrionda ( not given clear goal for England against Germany ), Roberto Rosetti ( his assistant Stefano Ayroldi did not show a clear offside goal for Argentina against Mexico on) or Massimo Busacca (several questionable decisions in the game South Africa had to leave the tournament prematurely because of poor performance after the second round against Uruguay). When Roberto Rosetti, who had passed the final of the 2008 European Football Championship between Germany and Spain ( 0-1), the disappointment was sitting so deep that even though he had two years international matches may lead, after his departure the end of his career referee announced. Rosetti himself stressed, however, that the departure at the World Cup was not key to this success and that he will be responsible in the future rather for the referees in the second Italian league.
Endgame
With the guidance of the final match between the Netherlands and Spain, the English referee Howard Webb was professional in charge. Webb, who (and as referees at Work see ) was still sent home early at the European Football Championship in 2008 because of a recognized offside door in the match between Austria and Poland, could come up to the finale not only with good performance, but also benefited from the fact that England was eliminated in the second round against Germany. This next round of the German team prevented the German referee Wolfgang Stark in further operations, as during the remaining tournament only gamemaster were nominated whose teams were eliminated.
Legend
- Continental Association → Continental Association, of which the arbitrator was asked AFC Asian Football Confederation =
- CAF = Confédération Africaine de Football
- CONCACAF = Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Association Football
- CONMEBOL Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol =
- OFC = Oceania Football Confederation
- UEFA = Union of European Football Associations