Four Argentinian referees will be present at the Australia-New Zealand 2023 World Cup

The Argentines Laura Fortunato, Mariana De Almeida, Daiana Milone and Salomè Di Iorio They were appointed this Monday by FIFA to complement the refereeing staff of the forthcoming Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand 2023.

Fortunato will go as main referee; De Almeida and Milone will be assistants; and Di Iorio will be in the VAR team, which for the first time in history will have a female presence.

The four representatives of the Argentine arbitration are part of it a team of 33 referees, 55 assistant referees and 19 VAR team members announced by FIFA on Monday.

Fortunato is 37 years old and will live his second World Cup experience after participating in France 2019, like De Almeida, 39, who was also in Canada 2015 and at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

milonThe 29-year-old played in Jordan’s 2016 Women’s Under-17 World Cup and has made more than 30 appearances in the first division of Argentine men’s football.

Di Iorio, 42, is the most experienced of the group as her first international cap was at the London 2012 Olympic Games and she also competed in the Canada 2015 Women’s World Cup.

The list also includes the six referees who took part in Qatar 2022: the French Stephanie Frappart, the Rwandan Salima Mukansanga and the Japanese Yoshimi Yamashita as main referees plus the Brazilian Neuza Back, the Mexican Karen Díaz Medina and the American Kathryn Nesbitt, as assistants . .

Frappart, Karen Díaz and Neuza Back made history in Qatar as they were the first women’s squad in a men’s World Cup match controlling the duel between Costa Rica and Germany for the third round of Group E.

The World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be held from 20 July to 20 August and Argentina will be in Group G alongside Sweden, Italy and South Africa.