The French referee is 38 years old and has already officiated a Champions League match between Real Madrid and Celtic
Brazilian Neuza Back and Mexican Karen Díaz will accompany him as assistants.
He is 38 years old and has been a referee in the French First Division since 2011
Frenchwoman Stéphanie Frappart will be the first woman to officiate as main referee a match in a final round of a men’s World Cup this Thursday, when he will do justice in the match between Costa Rica and Germany in the third and final day of Group E.
FIFA reported this Tuesday that the 38-year-old French collegiate will be in charge of refereeing the duel between the Central Americans and the Germans, in which they will accompany him as assistants the Brazilian Neuza Back and the Mexican Karen Díaz in a historic female referee trio.
In this same World Cup, she was already the fourth referee in the matches Mexico 0 – Poland 0 and Portugal 3 – Ghana 2.
So far none of the three referees who have traveled to Qatar -Frappart, the Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita and the Rwandan Salima Mukasanga- she had been chosen as the main referee in this World Cup; Frappart and Back were the first women in history to participate in a men’s World Cup, respectively as fourth referee and reserve assistant in the Mexico-Poland match.
Frappart, which has been part of the First Division since 2011, has achieved many milestones for women in men’s football, having been the first to officiate a French Ligue 1 match (2019), a European Super Cup final (2019), an official international team match (2020), a Champions League match (2020) or a French Cup final (2022).
This year he also refereed Real Madrid-Celtic in the Champions League.
But the work of Frappart and her colleagues is making it common for a woman to be part of a team of referees in men’s competitions. Soon, fortunately, they will stop making headlines for this and will only be for their refereeing work.
