World Cup in Qatar: All-female referee team to debut tonight – BBC News 中文

“But I don’t think we’re going to change who we are. Calm, focused, focused, don’t think too much about the media or anything, just focus on the pitch.”

Together with Frappa at the Al Bayt stadium on Thursday there will be the assistant referees of the match, the Brazilian Neuza Back and the Mexican Karen Diaz Medina (Karen Diaz Medina).

Asked if she has ever been judged by players, coaches or fans to be female, Frappa said: “I’ve had the support of teams, clubs and players since I started doing this job. I’ve always been on the pitch. Everyone is welcome, so I feel like I’m just another referee on the pitch. It was like that before, so I feel like I’m going to become as popular as I was.”

Already in 2020, Frappa became the first female referee of a men’s match in the UEFA Champions League.

At the age of 38, she also refereed the 2019 UEFA Super Cup match between Liverpool (Liverpool) and Chelsea (Chelsea). At the time, she was the first woman to serve as a referee in a major European men’s soccer match.

There are 36 referees at the World Cup in Qatar, and three of them are women – in addition to Frapa, Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamashita from Japan.