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KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | The World football governing body FIFA has selected Uganda’s leading female referee Shamira Nabadda to officiate at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2024.
FIFA communicated the selection of the 12 referees, 24 assistants and two support referees on Friday.
Sixteen teams including Kenya will participate in the tournament slated for October 16 to November 3 in the Dominican Republic.
Nabadda is the only referee selected from the Council of East and Central African Football Association (CECAFA) Zone to officiate at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.
The second African referee selected is Algeria’s Mehat Ghada, and the assistants include Hamdi Soukaina (Morocco), Abdelfattah Yara (Egypt), Kone Fanta (Mali), and Zambia’s Nancy Kasitu.
It will be Nabadda’s first time to officiate at a World Cup stage. She recently officiated at the Paris Olympics 2024 in France.
“We are happy that one of our referees in the CECAFA Zone has been selected for this big tournament,” CECAFA’s Director of Competition, Yusuf Mossi told Xinhua over the phone on Friday.
Besides Kenya and the host Dominican Republic, other teams that qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup are Nigeria, Zambia, Japan, DPR Korea, South Korea, Mexico, the U.S., Brazil, England, Poland, Spain, Colombia, New Zealand and Ecuador. ■
