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IRNA - World football body FIFA on Friday
picked 23 referees to officiate the 64 games of the 2006 World Cup.
The following refs were selected for the global football tournament:
Asia (2): Toru Kamikawa (Japan), Shamsul Maidin (Singapore) Africa (2): Esam
El Deen Abd El Fatah (Egypt), Coffi B. Codjia (Benin) North -and Central
America (3): Benito Armando Archundia (Mexico), Carlos Alberto Batres
(Guatemala), Peter Prendergast (Jamaica) South America: (5): Carlos Arecio
Amarilla (Paraguay), Horacio Marcelo Elizondo (Argentina), Jorge Luis
Larrionda (Uruguay), Oscar Julian Ruiz (Columbia), Carlos Simon (Brazil)
Oceania (1): Mark A. Shield (Australia)
Europe: (10): Massimo Busacca (Switzerland), Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium),
Massimo De Santis (Italy), Valentin Ivanov (Russia), Manuel Enrique Mejuto
Gonzalez (Spain), Markus Merk (Germany), Lubos Michel (Slovakia), Graham
Poll (England), Eric Poulat (France), Kyros Vassaras (Greece).
Some of the world's top 44 referees, among them Iran's Massoud Moradi,
competed for the right to officiate World Cup matches.
The 2006 World Cup will take place in 12 German cities from June 9 through
July 9.
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