The
FIFA Referees Committee yesterday announced the match officials who will be in
charge at the forthcoming FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019.
Five
refereeing trios and one support referee will officiate the matches. FIFA has
also selected six more match officials to operate as video assistant referees
(VARs) during the tournament.
All
of the selected match officials will complete their final preparations in Qatar
a few days before the first match kicks off.
Gassama
became a FIFA referee in 2007. He officiated at the 2012 Olympic tournament,in
which he was the fourth official for the gold medal match between Mexico and
Brazil. He also served as a referee at the 2012 and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
tournaments, as well as the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
In
March 2013, FIFA named Gassama as one of the fifty potential referees for the
2014 World Cup. On 15 January 2014, FIFA announced that he would be one of the
25 referees for the tournament. His assistants were announced to be Evarist
Menkouandé and Felicien Kabanda. He officiated the third group stage match in
group B between the Netherlands and Chile on 23 June 2014. He officiated the
2015 Africa Cup of Nations Final match on 8 February 2015 between Ghana and
Côte d’Ivoire.
On
27 April 2017, Gassama was selected as CAF’s sole referee for the 2017 FIFA
Confederations Cup in Russia. His assistants were announced to be Jean Claude
Birumushahu (Burundi) and Marwa Range (Kenya), and his video assistant referee
was appointed to be Malang Diedhiou (Senegal). His only match at the
competition was the Group A match between Mexico and New Zealand on 21 June
2017.
On
29 March 2018, FIFA announced that he will officiate some matches at 2018 FIFA
World Cup along with Jean-Claude Birumushahu and Marwa Range as assistant
referees.
