Saturday 25 May 2024

Copa America 2024 - Selected Referees

23 referees have been called for the tournament that will involve also CONCACAF officials and a UEFA guest.


Full list of selected officials below:



9 comments:

  1. Definitely too many referees for the number of games. Some of them will be very likely appointed with the classic FIFA scheme: 1 GS + 1 KO game. But this will not help in terms of technical assessments, as it was for WC preselection, it seems the CONMEBOL is rather focused on calling the names from the well known federations, than to look for a real quality. They should have made a different selection, if you ask me. We will see how they will be appointed.
    Mariani for Italy, we know he is preselected by FIFA but one could also have expected Massa after the disappointment with EURO.
    A Category 1 referees is sent and I think this is OK for the South American tournament.

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    1. Reminds me of the 1996 European Championships in England, when the 24 group games were officiated by 24 different referees before 7 of them were given a second call-up in the knockout phase.

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  2. As a South American, I can explain: this is the standard of Enrique Cárceres, who heads the association's arbitration....
    CONMEBOL, unlike UEFA and FIFA, does not usually send referees to just serve as support, so I can say that many who appear, as is the case in countries with more than one referee, will only make one match and will be fourth official for the rest of Copa America.

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  3. What did you mean about standard of Enrique Caceres ?

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    1. I think the translator didn't provide the best definition. I meant to say this is the way Enrique Cárceres usually works with referees.

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  4. I'm guessing 4-8 of them will be support officials.

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    1. But there are ARs nominated for all of them, so probably everyone is planned to referee.

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    2. Exactly, CONMEBOL is not like UEFA which called up referees for EURO who will not make any matches. In the Copa América there will be at least one match for each referee

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    3. Oh ok. @Luis do you know why it says in 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210421194043/https://www.conmebol.com/sites/default/files/ca-arbitros-convocados.pdf there are support officials here but it seems like they didn't use them at all at the tournament? Just wondering what happened.

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