Bentla D'Coth

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Bentla D'Coth
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Full name Bentla D'Coth
Place of birth Ernakulam, Kerala, India
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Bentla D'Coth is a football referee and former footballer from India. [1] She is the first woman to be an international football referee from South Asia. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Former India international Bentla D'Coth from Ernakulam has become the first woman ex-FIFA referee to be selected for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Elite Referee Course". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  2. "Bentla D'Coth becomes referee". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  3. First woman to be an international football referee from south Asia Archived March 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine