FIFA names 3 Brazilians, 2 Spaniards refs for Nigeria vs. Croatia match
By FIFA has named Sandro Ricci alongside Emerson de Carvalho, 1st Assistant Referee (AR1) and Marcelo van Gasse as 2nd Assistant Referee (AR2), all Brazilians as officiating referees for Nigeria’s opening Group D match against Croatia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup on Saturday night at the Kaliningrad stadium, Russia.
Also, Antonio Mateu and Pao Cebrian, both Spaniards, will be the 4th Official and Reserve Assistant Referee (RAR), respectively.
The Nigeria-Croatia match is one of four matches slated for Saturday at the World Cup which got underway on Thursday, June 14th with Argentina facing Croatia in the other Group D match.
Five African referees have also been listed for Saturday’s Group C game between Peru and Denmark at Saransk, with Gambia’s Papa Gassama as the centre referee.
His assistants are Jean-Claude Birumushanu from Burundi and Abdelhak Etchiali of Algeria as AR1 and AR2, respectively.
Mehdi Abid Charef of Algeria and Amouar Hmila of Tunisia are the Fourth Official and RAR.
Four other African referees were named in the five-man officiating team for Sunday’s Group E match between Costa Rica and Serbia at Samara.
While Senegalese referee, Malang Diedhiou, will be at the centre, his compatriots Djibril Camara and El-Hadji Samba will be the AR1 and AR2.
Ethiopia’s Bamlaku Weyesa will be the Fourth Oficial and Russia’s Tikhon Kalugin completing the team.
Anthony Nlebem, reporting from Kaliningrad
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