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Carlos Arecio Amarilla Demarqui is a football referee from Paraguay. Amarilla has been a referee since 1997 and his first international game was between Uruguay and Ecuador. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup he took charge of the opening Group E match between the United States and the Czech Republic, and the Group G match between Switzerland and Togo. Amarilla was not chosen to officiate Knockout Round matches.
Massimo Busacca is a Swiss former football referee. He lives in Monte Carasso, Ticino, near Bellinzona.
Benito Armando Archundia Téllez is a retired Mexican football referee. He is known in Mexico as Armando Archundia, but appears as Benito Archundia in FIFA records. He has been a professional referee since 1985 and has had his FIFA referee permission since 1993. His first fixture as an international referee was the 1994 match between USA and Greece.
André Daina is a retired Swiss football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He also refereed one match in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship in France. He refereed a European Cup semi-final leg in 1984 and the European Cup final in 1985.
Rudolf Scheurer was a football (soccer) referee from Bettlach, most remembered for supervising four matches at the FIFA World Cup: two in 1970 and 1974. During his peak times, Scheurer was a high-profile referee: In 1970, he was nominated as linesman in the final between Brazil and Italy. In 1974, he was awarded the opening game. Scheurer also whistled in 1970 and 1974 World Cup qualifiers, UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying, and many European club competition matches. After he retired from his active career, Scheurer served as chief of the Swiss soccer referees. He died on November 1, 2015.
Felix Brych is a German football referee. He referees for SV Am Hart München of the Bavarian Football Association. He is a FIFA referee and is ranked as a UEFA elite category referee.
The Moldova women's national football team represents Moldova in association football and is controlled by the Moldovan Football Federation, the governing body for football in Moldova. They have never qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup or the UEFA Women's Championship. Eduard Blănuță has been the manager of the national team since 4 February 2019. The current captain of the national team is midfielder Ludmila Caraman. Currently ranked 86th by FIFA, the team plays their home games at the Zimbru Stadium in the city of Chișinău, the country's capital.
Nikolaj Haenni is a Swiss football referee. He refereed his first match in the Swiss Super League on 18 August 2007, when he officiated between F.C. St. Gallen and Neuchâtel Xamax. He has been a FIFA-listed referee since 2011, and is a UEFA category 3 referee.
Alyaksey Mikalayevich Kulbakow is a Belarusian football referee, who is a listed international referee since 2005. He is a FIFA-licensed and UEFA elite group referee. He is the only Belarusian official who regularly takes part in the group stages of UEFA club competitions.
Slavko Vinčić is a Slovenian football referee. He has been an international-listed referee for FIFA since 2010. Vinčić went to UEFA Euro 2012 as additional assistant in the team of Damir Skomina.
Esther Staubli is a Swiss football referee. German-speaking Staubli is 168 cm tall and has been on the FIFA International Referees List since 2006. An agronomist by trade, Staubli also lectures in a university.
Rita Binti Gani is a Malaysian association football referee. A corporal in the Royal Malaysia Police force, she began officiating in 2004 and was added to the FIFA international list of referees in 2006. She was voted the AFC Woman Referee of the Year in 2014 after officiating six matches in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Vietnam including the semi-final between Australia and South Korea.
Stephan Klossner is a Swiss professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2012.
Alain Bieri is a Swiss professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2011.
Adrien Jaccottet is a Swiss professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2011.
Sandro Schärer is a Swiss professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2015.
Walter Hungerbühler was a Swiss football referee.
Manuel Schüttengruber is an Austrian football referee who officiates in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. He has been a FIFA referee since 2014, and is ranked as a UEFA first category referee.
Daniel Bogdan Stefański is a Polish football referee who officiates in the Ekstraklasa. He has been a FIFA referee since 2013, and is ranked as a UEFA first category referee.
Marco Di Bello is an Italian football referee who officiates in Serie A. He has been a FIFA referee since 2018, and is ranked as a UEFA second category referee.
