World Cup: referee team is reduced, Frappart also at home

Four games still to be played, and the team of FIFA referees at the World Cup in Qatar is inevitably reduced: in fact, a large group of referees and assistants has returned home, including the French Stephanie Frappart.

For the three matches that remain to be assigned (the Italian Orsato has already been designated for tomorrow's semifinal between Argentina and Croatia) a small group remains with a dozen referees, including the two Brazilians Sampaio and Claus and others three Europeans, the Dutch Makkelie, the Pole Marciniak and the English Taylor.

    The Spanish Lahoz, referee of the Argentina-Netherlands quarter-final, returned home like the others;

against him no particular provision of suspension, as instead claimed by the Argentine news agency Telam.