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Milorad Mažić

Milorad Mažić is a Serbian international association football referee. He became a FIFA referee in 2009. Beside working in the Serbian football league system, Mažić officiated numerous matches in the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League, as well as the 2016 UEFA Super Cup. He refereed matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2016, 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. He was selected as a referee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was awarded a Silver Medal for Merits of the Republic of Serbia. He was selected the best Serbian referee nine times in a row.

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Gianluca Rocchi

Gianluca Rocchi is an Italian association football referee.

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Mehdi Abid Charef

Mehdi Abid Charef is an Algerian association football referee.

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Dermot Gallagher

Dermot J. Gallagher is a retired Irish association football referee, who lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire. He refereed in the Premier League of English football until May 2007.

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Jenny Palmqvist

Jenny Palmqvist is a South Korean–born Swedish association football referee.

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Rita Gani

Rita Binti Gani is a Malaysian association football referee. A corporal in the Royal Malaysia Police force, she began officiating in 2004 and was added to the FIFA international list of referees in 2006. She was voted the AFC Woman Referee of the Year in 2014 after officiating six matches in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Vietnam including the semi-final between Australia and South Korea.

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Jarnail Singh (referee)

Jarnail Singh is a retired English association football referee of Indian descent who officiated in the Football League. He moved to Wolverhampton, West Midlands, at a young age, and now lives in Hounslow, Greater London. He has a full-time occupation in the Metropolitan Police in London. Singh is also an ambassador for the Football Association. He was the first Sikh to be an English Football referee.

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Matthew Breeze

Matthew Christopher Breeze is an Australian association football referee. He is also a barrister and a former police prosecutor.

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Suhaizi Shukri

Suhaizi Shukri is an international association football referee from Malaysia. He became a FIFA referee in 2011.

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Scott Duncan (referee)

Scott Duncan is an English association football referee who officiates in the Football League. He first refereed in the Football Conference in 2008, and became an assistant referee in the Football League two years later. Duncan began refereeing in the Football League in 2012 when he was promoted to the National List.

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Paolo Tagliavento

Paolo Tagliavento is a former Italian association football referee who currently officiates in the Serie A and the UEFA competitions; namely the European Champions League and the Europa League.

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Morag Pirie

Morag Pirie is a Scottish association football referee. She is Scotland's first female FIFA referee, having been appointed to FIFA's Elite Development Level in 2012.

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Abdullah Al Hilali

Abdullah Al Hilali is an Omani association football referee for FIFA, and the Asian Football Confederation. He has performed at many international football competitions since 2002 including the 2008 Summer Olympics, the AFC Champions League 2009 and the World Cup 2010 qualifiers.

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Marijo Strahonja

Marijo Strahonja is a Croatian association football referee who currently officiates in the Prva HNL as well as UEFA competitions such as the European Champions League and the Europa League.

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Keith Walker (referee)

Keith Edwin Walker was an English association football referee. He was born in Manchester but moved to Blackpool where he started his refereeing career after playing as a goalkeeper for Lytham in the Lancashire Combination. After officiating in the Lancashire Combination, Irish League and Central League he became a Football League linesman in 1959 and was promoted to the Referees List two years later aged only 30. He had a season based in Preston (1965-1966) before in 1967 moving from Blackpool to the village of Bearsted near Maidstone, Kent to pursue his career as a Senior Educational Administrative Officer for Kent County Council. He officiated the Northern Irish Cup Final 1968 in which Crusaders F.C. from Belfast defeated their city rivals Linfield F.C. 2-0.

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