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The 38-year-old Frenchwoman is no stranger to major tournaments: she has stood out in the refereeing world for years, and since 2019 she has led the ranking of the best referees in the world, According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).
“I started as a player, I started playing in a division, and then I wanted to learn the rules of the game, I was just interested in that, and I started taking some courses,” he said in an interview with CNN in 2019. At that time, she recalls, women’s soccer was not as developed as it is now. He chose the jury “and the choice was right.”
When she started training, there were no women in her group. He trained with men and began refereeing men. “Sometimes they asked (the reasons for being a judge) because they wanted to know the decision and comment. I tried to explain to them, but sometimes it was very difficult to understand,” he said.
In 2019, she became a French woman She was the first woman to referee a men’s final European football, match between Liverpool and Chelsea. Two years later, he topped the UEFA World Cup qualifiers in Qatar. A match he refereed Netherlands vs Latvia in Amsterdam.
He has also refereed in the second division of the French League and the Europa League.
