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Daniel NSUBUGA
Uganda’s Shamirah Nabadda has been chosen among the many 18 heart referees to take cost of the FIFA Girls’s U-20 World Cup that might be hosted by Poland in September this 12 months.
The 30 12 months previous is without doubt one of the continent’s quickest rising referees after additionally being beforehand chosen to officiate on the CAF CHAN championships that have been hosted by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania final 12 months.
She additionally served on the FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup in Dominican Republic in 2024 after additionally changing 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 Girls’s World Cup that might be hosted by Brazil in 2027.
“We congratulate the match officers chosen for these two essential tournaments within the girls’s soccer calendar,”
“As we construct in the direction of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2027 in Brazil, these competitions will present a super alternative to evaluate progress, each on the pitch and with the usage of supporting expertise. The FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup will use VAR to help match officers, whereas the FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup will use Soccer Video Help.”
Collina mentioned.
Nabadda might be joined by Namibia’s Twanyanyuka Antsino as the middle referees from Africa.
Uganda did not qualify for the match after failing beat Ghana on the closing hurdle. Ghana might be joined by Benin, Tanzania and Nigeria as Africa’s representatives.
The FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup might 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)