Yee-Sing named amongst 107 match officers for 2023 Girls’s World Cup

 Jamaican Stephanie Yee-Sing has been chosen to officiate at a second FIFA Girls’s World Cup.

FIFA named her as considered one of 55 assistant referees because it unveiled an inventory of 107 match officers for the July 20-August 20 event in Australia and New Zealand, that additionally consists of 33 referees, help referees, and 19 video match officers (VMOs).

Yee-Sing had been shortlisted together with compatriots Princess Brown – who she additionally officiated with on the 2019 World Cup in France – Odette Hamilton and Jasette Kerr.

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“I’m overjoyed,” mentioned Yee-Sing. “We work laborious every single day with the hope of representing our nation at these main tournaments. Rubbing shoulders with the very best and working with elite gamers has all the time been my dream since I started.”

The Jamaica Soccer Federation issued an announcement congratulating Yee-Sing on her accomplishment, and president Michael Ricketts mentioned she deserved it.

“Stephanie ought to function inspiration to all of the officers in Jamaica,” he mentioned. “She together with a few of the different feminine officers has been coaching and working at world-class ranges for some time. It’s nice to see Stephanie getting the rewards she so richly deserves. We hope that she’s going to function a catalyst and inspiration to different women and gents officers to work laborious because the sky is the restrict.”

In a FIFA assertion, Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina mentioned the chosen on-field match officers “symbolize the very best stage of refereeing worldwide”.

“They’ve been chosen in shut cooperation with the six confederations, based mostly on the officers’ high quality and the performances delivered at FIFA tournaments in addition to at different worldwide and home competitions lately,” FIFA added. “For the primary time within the historical past of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup, six feminine VMOs have additionally been chosen.”

Collina added: “All of us bear in mind the very profitable FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2019 in France. The excessive customary of refereeing contributed considerably to that success. The purpose for the FIFA Girls’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 is to repeat that success and to persuade once more with wonderful referees’ performances.”

Through the first two months of the yr, Stephanie Yee-Sing and the opposite chosen match officers will take part in preparatory seminars in Doha and Montevideo, reviewing and analysing video clips of actual match conditions and collaborating in sensible coaching periods with gamers, which might be filmed to allow contributors to obtain prompt suggestions from instructors.

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