Stéphanie Frappart makes history as 1st female World Cup ref - FOX13 Memphis

AL KHOR, Qatar — (AP) — French referee Stéphanie Frappart became the archetypal pistillate to instrumentality complaint of a men's World Cup crippled connected Thursday arsenic she blew her whistle to commencement Germany's crippled against Costa Rica.

Frappart besides had 2 women arsenic assistants — Neuza Back of Brazil and Karen Diaz Medina of Mexico — to implicit an all-female refereeing squad connected the field.

Kathryn Nesbitt of the United States was besides moving astatine the Al Bayt Stadium arsenic the offside specializer successful the video reappraisal team.

FIFA has 2 different women, Salima Mukansanga of Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamashita of Japan, connected its database to referee games astatine the tourney successful Qatar.

Frappart had been picked antecedently for duties arsenic the 4th official.

The 38-year-old Frenchwoman was promoted successful the men’s crippled by European shot assemblage UEFA and successful her location state and she has already refereed men’s games successful World Cup qualifying and the Champions League. She besides took complaint of this year’s men’s French Cup last and the 2019 Women’s World Cup last for FIFA.

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