World Cup matches officiated
| Tournament | Date | Venue | Round | Team 1 | Result | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | June 3, 2002 | Sapporo Dome, Sapporo | First round |  Italy | 2 – 0 |  Ecuador |
| 2002 | June 12, 2002 | Nagai Stadium, Osaka | First round |  Nigeria | 0 – 0 |  England |
Brian Hall (born June 5, 1961) is an American former soccer referee from northern California. He started his professional career as an assistant referee in the NASL at age 19. [1] Hall was a FIFA referee from 1992 until he retired in 2007 at the mandatory retirement age of 45. [2] He refereed two games in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He was also named Major League Soccer Referee of the Year in 2003, 2005 2006, and 2007. [3] Hall served as the US Soccer Manager of Referee Assessment and Training until 2010. [4] He became the first Director of Referees for CONCACAF in December 2010 and held that post until December 2013. [5] Hall is currently the Match Official Development Manager for the Professional Referee Organization (PRO). [6]
In March 2016, he was appointed as CONCACAF's director of refereeing. [7]
| Tournament | Date | Venue | Round | Team 1 | Result | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | June 3, 2002 | Sapporo Dome, Sapporo | First round | Italy | 2 – 0 | Ecuador |
| 2002 | June 12, 2002 | Nagai Stadium, Osaka | First round | Nigeria | 0 – 0 | England |
Pierluigi Collina is an Italian former football referee. He was named "The World's Best Referee" by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics six consecutive times from 1998-2003.
The Canadian Soccer Association is the governing body for soccer in Canada. Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, the federation is a full member of FIFA and governs Canadian soccer at the international, professional, and amateur levels, including: the men's and women's national teams, Canadian Premier League, youth organizations, beach soccer, futsal, Paralympic and deaf national teams. The Canadian Soccer Association also administers and operates the Canadian Championship.
Patrick Stewart Onstad is a Canadian former professional soccer goalkeeper who serves as the General Manager of the Houston Dynamo. During his career, Onstad played with a variety of clubs in Canada and the United States and was a three-time winner of MLS Cup. He was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in November 2015.
The TT Premier Football League is the Trinidad and Tobago professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division in the Trinidad and Tobago football league system. Contested by ten clubs, the league is one of the world's few football leagues that does not operate on an automatic system of promotion and relegation. Seasons run from September to May, with teams playing 18 games each totaling 90 games in the season. Most games are played in the evenings of Fridays and Saturdays, with a few games played during weekday evenings. TT Premier Football League clubs also play in other competitions, such as the FA Trophy, League Cup, TOYOTA Classic, Goal Shield, and Pro Bowl against domestic clubs from other divisions; and against clubs from other countries in the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup and the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
Jason Richard de Vos is a Canadian soccer executive and interim General Secretary of the Canada Soccer Association. A former professional soccer player, he most notably played for Wigan Athletic and Ipswich Town. While representing his country, he was part of the national team that won the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
James Gerald "Jim" Brennan is a UEFA Pro License-holder Canadian soccer coach, analyst and former player. During his playing career he played as a defender in Canada and England, most notably with Bristol City, Nottingham Forest, Southampton F.C. Norwich City and Toronto FC.
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Alan I. Rothenberg is an American lawyer and sports executive. He is known for his contributions to and influence on the growth of soccer in the United States. He is the namesake of the Alan I. Rothenberg Trophy, which was awarded annually to the winner of the MLS Cup from 1996 to 2007. Rothenberg was president of U.S. Soccer, the governing body of American soccer, during the 1990s and oversaw the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States and the establishment of Major League Soccer in 1996.
Héctor Vergara is a Canadian soccer referee. Although born in San Javier, Chile, Vergara grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He attended John Taylor Collegiate. Vergara earned a Bachelor of Recreation Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Advanced Psychology from the University of Manitoba.
Jair Marrufo is an American soccer referee. He has been a referee in Major League Soccer since 2002 and a FIFA referee from 2007 to 2022.
Sonia Denoncourt is a retired soccer referee from Canada. She worked for FIFA as head of women's referee development, Director of Refereeing at Concacaf and currently work as the North America Academy Director at You Are The Ref International.
Paul Tamberino is a retired American soccer midfielder and referee who officiated on the collegiate, professional and international levels. He was the 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 Major League Soccer Referee of the Year and is currently working for Major League Soccer.
Ricardo Salazar is a referee who currently referees for the Professional Referee Organization and international matches. He became a full-time referee in 2007.
Mark William Geiger is an American sports administrator and former soccer referee. He is the senior director of match officials at the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), which oversees domestic referees in Major League Soccer (MLS). Geiger previously officiated in MLS and was on the FIFA International Referees List from 2008 to 2019. At the international level, Geiger refereed the 2012 Olympics, the 2013, 2015, and 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cups, and the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups. At the 2014 World Cup, he became the first referee from the United States to officiate a knockout match at a World Cup tournament. Before becoming a full-time referee, Geiger was a high school mathematics teacher.
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Baldomero Toledo is a Mexican-born American soccer referee. He has been a Major League Soccer referee since 2004 and a FIFA referee from 2007 to 2017.
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Robert (Bob) Evans was a Welsh-American soccer player, coach, and referee, author, and research geologist who represented the United States Soccer Federation as an international (FIFA) referee from 1980 to 1988. He also served as U.S. Soccer's National Director of Referee Instruction from 1988 until 1992 and is often credited with being the father of its national referee instruction program.
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