“The aim will still be the same, to referee the game properly,” Stephanie Frappart had stated about her history-defying presence for the sport between Costa Rica and Germany.
The French referee and her two colleagues from Brazil Neuza Back and Mexico’s Karen Diaz broke a 92-year glass ceiling to change into the primary all-female refereeing workforce for a males’s World Cup match.
The head of FIFA’s Referees Committee, Italian Pierluigi Collina, had stated “we clearly emphasise that it is quality that counts for us and not gender,” concerning the appointment.
And the 38-year-old seemed unfazed by the scrutinising eyes of the entire world. She had refereed in a French Ligue 1 sport in 2019 and took cost of the ladies’s World Cup remaining the identical 12 months and the UEFA Super Cup remaining between Liverpool and Chelsea.
Frappart managed this high-pressure sport with the correct little bit of strictness and leniency, permitting gamers to specific with out frequent stoppages. But she was fast to the spot to defuse the overspilling stress when Kai Havertz was stopped by Costa Rican gamers to retrieve the ball for a restart after he had equalised. The match was performed in the correct spirit and the one reserving got here within the 77th minute to Costa Rica’s Oscar Duarte.
With Frappart and her companions firmly in management, FIFA was lastly successful a sport in Qatar 2022.