{"id":394893,"date":"2022-11-30T05:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394893"},"modified":"2022-11-30T05:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:47:12","slug":"frances-frappart-to-become-first-female-world-cup-referee","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/frances-frappart-to-become-first-female-world-cup-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Frappart to become first female World Cup referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Frappart will make history on Thursday when she becomes the first female referee to officiate a men&#8217;s World Cup match.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old French will lead an all-female team in the game, featuring Costa Rica and Germany with Brazils&#8217; Neuza Back and Mexico\u2019s Karen Diaz Medina named as her assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Frappart has already became the first woman to take charge of matches in each of French Ligue 1, the Champions League and World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>She boasts experience in the Champions League and European World Cup qualifiers, while she was also referee of the 2022 Coupe de France final and 2019 women&#8217;s World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s match will have huge bearings on which teams qualify from Group E. Costa Rica and Germany currently sit third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History is set to be made on Thursday! \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>There will be an all-female refereeing trio taking charge for the first time at a men&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> in the match between Costa Rica and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Referee St\u00e9phanie Frappart will be joined by assistants Neuza Back and Karen Diaz.\u00a0\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fgHfh2DICK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fgHfh2DICK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1597878126142439425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Frappart will make history on Thursday when she becomes the first female referee to officiate a men&#8217;s World Cup match. The 38-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394894,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16880],"news_category":[14235,141,14236,16671],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 38-year-old will officiate Thursday's game between Germany and Costa Rica","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394893"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394893"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}