Referees for World Cup matches 1 - 16

Full story on FIFA.com.

World Cup 2010 Opening Match Referee Decided

FIFA’s Referee Committee today assigned Ravshan Irmatov from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as referee for the Opening Match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ held in Johannesburg Soccer City at 16:00 between France and Mexico. (Full story on FIFA.com)

Updated list of FIFA World Cup Referees

See the latest list from 27-MAY-2010 here.

Very interesting stuff, this list shows the proposed teams of referees for the tournament.

Poll: What region will the referee be from for the final?

Alright folks ... a new poll is up at kicking back.

What region will the referee be from for the final?

Vote early, vote often ... Poll closes before the semi-final matches.

I will also try to (gracefully) put up what referee will work the final as well.

A complete list of the 2010 referees is here for those interested.

Let the games begin!

Please read the disclaimer ... please ...

Being a technology professional, I am always on the look out for something cool or informative in the electronic frontier.

Being a legal professional, I am always leery of what I just saw, or shared, will get me into, or those I associate with, in trouble.

I think this some of these fall more in the latter than the former (somewhat).

Before proceeding, please take a moment and familiarize yourself with the Legal Stuff portion of the blog which basically says ... it's not my fault.

With that I ran across a referee section of a 2010 World Cup Blog that on the surface looked pretty good. I am interested to see what the authors have up their sleeve as some of their posts were both cutting, and funny.

Again, please read the disclaimer ... please ...