ZURICH -- With only two months to go before the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup launches in India, the FIFA Referees Committee appointed Friday 21 trios of match officials, representing all six confederations.
Three of those trios come from CONCACAF:
COSTA RICA
Referee: Ricardo Montero
Assistant Referees: Octavio Jara, Carlos Mora
PANAMA
Referee: John Pitti
Assistant Referees: Gabriel Victoria,
HONDURAS
Assistant Referees: Christian Ramirez
USA
Referee: Jair Maruffo
Assistant Referees: Frank Anderson, Corey Rockwell
For the first-ever time, FIFA selected female referees for a men’s tournament, naming seven as support referees, including Canada’s Carol Anne Chenard, the 2016 CONCACAF Female Referee of the Year.
“We think it’s time for elite female referees to be involved in a FIFA men’s competition. They worked together with male match officials last year and now we want to see them working together in a competition,” said FIFA Head of Refereeing Massimo Busacca.
The referees have completed a host of activities together in several seminars, including theoretical sessions in the classroom and practical sessions on the field of play. The match officials have also discussed and practiced various game situations to achieve consistency and uniformity.
The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup will take place in the cities Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai and New Delhi from October 6-28, 2017.
