La Française will officiate during the meeting between Germany and Costa Rica, Thursday evening.
Mo12345lemonde
After being the first woman to arbitrate a match of the male football euro, the French Stéphanie Freppart will become on Thursday, the first woman to arbitrate a match of the male World Cup in Qatar, during the meeting Between Germany and Costa Rica, announced, Tuesday, November 29, FIFA.
Stéphanie Freppart is one of the three women selected among the thirty-six field referees of this World Cup with the Rwandan Salima Mukansanga and the Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita. Three others are part of the workforce of line judges.
At 38, the 2012 World Cup in Qatar is the logical continuation of a dazzling ascent in the career of Stéphanie FRAPPART. First woman referee in the French second division (2014), then in Male Ligue 1 (2019), in European Supercup (August 2019), in the Champions League (December 2020) and in the Coupe de France final (May 7) , she will continue to write the story Thursday at the Al-Bayt stadium.
Now very well anchored in the French and European arbitration landscape, she had officiated as fourth referee during two meetings of this group phase of the World-2022: Mexico-Pologne and Portugal-Ghana.