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Daniel NSUBUGA
Uganda’s Shamirah Nabadda has been chosen among the many 18 middle referees to take cost of the FIFA Ladies’s U-20 World Cup that will probably be hosted by Poland in September this yr.
The 30 yr outdated is among the continent’s quickest rising referees after additionally being beforehand chosen to officiate on the CAF CHAN championships that had been hosted by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania final yr.
She additionally served on the FIFA U-17 Ladies’s World Cup in Dominican Republic in 2024 after additionally turning into the second official from Uganda to officiate on the Olympics following within the footsteps of Ali Tomusange.
FIFA head of referees committee and the chief referees officer Pierluigi Collina confirmed that the officers may even be assessed in preparation for the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup that will probably be hosted by Brazil in 2027.
“We congratulate the match officers chosen for these two essential tournaments within the ladies’s soccer calendar,”
“As we construct in the direction of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2027 in Brazil, these competitions will present a really perfect alternative to evaluate progress, each on the pitch and with using supporting expertise. The FIFA U-20 Ladies’s World Cup will use VAR to help match officers, whereas the FIFA U-17 Ladies’s World Cup will use Soccer Video Assist.”
Collina stated.
Nabadda will probably be joined by Namibia’s Twanyanyuka Antsino as the middle referees from Africa.
Uganda didn’t qualify for the match after failing beat Ghana on the ultimate hurdle. Ghana will probably be joined by Benin, Tanzania and Nigeria as Africa’s representatives.
The FIFA U-20 Ladies’s World Cup will probably be hosted in Poland in September and can function 24 groups. The match will embody 36 group-stage matches and 52 matches in whole, performed throughout 4 Host Cities. A complete of 68 match officers have been appointed for the competitors, comprising 18 referees, 36 assistant referees (all feminine) and 14 video match officers (ten feminine and 4 male)
