CTyankee
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The punishment has started...
FIFA is notorious for subtly punishing a country which has offended them.
The USA has only one referee and no assistants assigned to work this event. This is not necessarily unusual to have only one referee assigned and no assistants but if you have seen the dreadful refereeing from the 3d world countries referees over the last 2 days, you see how FIFA can manipulate assignments to curry favors, especially in future voting... There are some officials who obviously should not be there...
Our USA official, Margaret Domka, has drawn as her first assignment, the Cote d'Ivoire vs Thailand game on Thursday... I don't know a lot about Ms Domka but here in the USA we have a significant amount of women's soccer at the college level and the professional level... Certainly Ms Domka has a resume to do a game at a higher level than these two teams... They are probably the worst two teams in the tournament. Of course it is possible that this assignment has been made because these two teams are so bad that they need someone with a great amount of experience to do this match...
We will see how she performs on the field. I hope there are enough challenging situations so her evaluation moves her on as second round and additional assignments are done based on merit. Of course if the USA moves into the final rounds she will not work. Referees for the final matches are normally selected from confederations and countries not involved at that point.
We have a long history of refereeing big assignments on the women's side including opening day matches as well as some of the big games... I wish her the best.
Unfortunately the USA has had t0 take on the role of the cop cleaning up FIFA... Our punishment has started...
FIFA is notorious for subtly punishing a country which has offended them.
The USA has only one referee and no assistants assigned to work this event. This is not necessarily unusual to have only one referee assigned and no assistants but if you have seen the dreadful refereeing from the 3d world countries referees over the last 2 days, you see how FIFA can manipulate assignments to curry favors, especially in future voting... There are some officials who obviously should not be there...
Our USA official, Margaret Domka, has drawn as her first assignment, the Cote d'Ivoire vs Thailand game on Thursday... I don't know a lot about Ms Domka but here in the USA we have a significant amount of women's soccer at the college level and the professional level... Certainly Ms Domka has a resume to do a game at a higher level than these two teams... They are probably the worst two teams in the tournament. Of course it is possible that this assignment has been made because these two teams are so bad that they need someone with a great amount of experience to do this match...
We will see how she performs on the field. I hope there are enough challenging situations so her evaluation moves her on as second round and additional assignments are done based on merit. Of course if the USA moves into the final rounds she will not work. Referees for the final matches are normally selected from confederations and countries not involved at that point.
We have a long history of refereeing big assignments on the women's side including opening day matches as well as some of the big games... I wish her the best.
Unfortunately the USA has had t0 take on the role of the cop cleaning up FIFA... Our punishment has started...