Another wall falls in football: the French Stephanie Frappart she will be the first female referee in a men’s Champions League match. The transalpine match director, 37 years old on 14 December, has been appointed for the match between Juve and Dinamo Kiev scheduled in Turin on Wednesday evening. Frappart has already set other records: she was the first woman to referee in the French championship, she directed the European Super Cup final in 2019 and last October she made her debut in the Europa League. The last match in this competition she directed was Granada-Omonia Nicosia on November 26th. Alongside Frappart, the assistants Hicham Zakrani e Mehdi Rahmouni, Karim Abed fourth official, Benoit Millot Take it, Delajod Willy Take there.
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Frappart had refereed the Super Cup between Liverpool and Chelsea in August 2019. His match direction was praised by the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: “There was a lot of pressure for this historic moment but she remained calm and did everything to her best. She deserves the utmost respect.” However, Wednesday will not be the first time for the French referee against an Italian team, and the previous one is more than favorable and auspicious: Stephanie Frappart had in fact directed the match of the Under 21 national team against Armenia in Catania, played in November last year and ended 6-0 for the azzurrini of Nicolato.
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Just the blue coach, at the time of the appointment, had not expressed any surprise: “I’m on the pitch to enforce the rules, it doesn’t change whether it’s a man or a woman. Women do their job well.” Also last year, but in April, he had already directed his first match in Ligue 1, the French top flight, between Amiens and Strasbourg. Another very famous referee, the German, withdrew last October Bibiana stone house, which ended her career at 41, the first and only one to have directed Bundesliga matches.
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