Referees Committee reduces the number of members to twelve | News from El Salvador

FIFA announced today the names of the 12 referees it has selected as candidates to lead the last four matches of the World Cup.

Alireza Faghani (Iran), Malang Diedhiou (Senegal), Mark Geiger (USA), Cesar Arturo Ramos Palazuelos (Mexico), Andrés Cunha (Uruguay), Néstor Pitana (Argentina), Sandro Ricci (Brazil), Matthew Conger ( New Zealand), Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey), Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands), Milorad Mazic (Serbia) and Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) are the teams that FIFA has elected.

In addition, there are still 26 participants and ten video referees for the two semifinals, the final and the duel for third and fourth place Uruguayan Andres Cunha will referee the first semifinal, which will be played tomorrow by France and Belgium in St. Petersburg.

For the moment we do not know who will whistle the second semifinal on Wednesday, England-Croatia. Cunha, 41, refereed the first phase duel between France and Australia, which was used for the first time in video refereeing in the history of the World Cup.

FIFA chose Cunha despite the selection of his country, Uruguay, fell to France 2-0 in the quarter-finals. The agency does not consider such sports links when nominating a member.