2024-01-11 12:37:00
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on the 11th that Japan’s Yoshimi Yamashita will be the first woman to serve as the referee for the match between Australia and India (on the 13th) in the first round of the AFC Asian Cup Group League. announced.
Referee Yamashita responded to an interview with Gekisaka following training on the 10th and said, “I am the only woman in this tournament who has the potential to serve as a referee, and we are the ones who can show what we can do.” Our hope is to pass on to the next (generation), so we want to do our best to make that come true.” However, on the second day of the tournament, he was immediately assigned to the historic match. It became.
The assistant referees will also be female, Makoto Bozono and Naomi Teshirogi. The Japanese trio, who have experience at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and last summer’s Women’s World Cup, will take on this historic match. It was also announced that Yusuke Araki will be in charge of the fourth umpire, Jun Mihara will be the reserve assistant referee, Hiroyuki Kimura will be in charge of VAR, and Junpei Iida will be in charge of AVAR, so seven Japanese referees will be in charge of one game at the same time. This is the first time in history that this has been accomplished.
(Reported and written by Tatsuya Takeuchi)
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