The China-Japan World Preliminary Tournament will be enforced by Jassim As referee, the Chinese team has never won

Source: Sports Weekly

According to FIFA, the Chinese men's soccer team's Jan. 27 away match against Japan will be enforced by Qatari referee Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Jassim, who is familiar to fans. However, the impression of Chinese fans is not very good. And the chinese team has previously enforced the match of the Chinese national team or the Chinese U23 team, and the Chinese team has lost all of them, not even a draw.

The Qatari referee, born in 1987, is a video assistant referee at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and a big hit referee shortlisted for this year's Qatar World Cup. So far, he has been one of the three referees who have played the most in the World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia, like China's Manning and Bahrain's Shuklala. However, if you count the previous Top 40 matches, you have already enforced 7 of the world preliminary tournaments, which is the referee with the most law enforcement.

It should be noted that Jassim has previously enforced three games in the round of 12, including South Korea's 2-1 home win over Syria, Iran's 2-1 away final injury time 2-1 miraculous reversal of Lebanon's two key matches in the first group, and the other is Japan's 2-1 home win over Australia on October 12. This time the Japanese team played the Chinese team at home, and it was Jassim law enforcement, and the meaning of this is probably needless to say.

And, in the Round of 40, Jassim has already enforced a match in which Japan won 4-1 over Tajikistan. On January 27, Japan played at home against China, the third time Jassim refereed Japan in this World Preliminary Tournament. In the second round of the round of 12, Vietnam played at home against Australia, Jassim played the referee. After the match, the Vietnamese team publicly complained that Jassim was "partial" to Australia, ensuring that Australia won a small 1-0 victory, and thus protested to the AFC and FIFA.

Although Jassim was invited to the Chinese Super League in March and April 2013 to enforce the two league games between Shanghai Shenxin and Shanghai Shenhua and Jiangsu Sainty and Beijing Guoan, the reason why Chinese fans are more familiar with Jassim is that he has repeatedly enforced the matches of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League. Like the Guangzhou team and the Shanghai harbor team have been enforced by Jassim 6 times, the guangzhou team's record is 1 win, 4 draws and 1 loss, and the harbor team is 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, so it has not "taken advantage". His most recent law enforcement super league match in the AFC Champions League was SIPG's 2-1 win over Sydney FC, Australia, in November 2020.

Jassim himself has twice played against China, both at the 2019 Asian Cup, first in the group stage, when China lost 0-2 to South Korea, and then lost 0-3 to Iran in the quarter-finals. His most recent referee for China's national team was in the U23 Asian Cup and Tokyo Olympic Men's Qualifiers in Thailand in January 2020, when the Chinese 97-year-old Olympic team lost 2-0 to Uzbekistan.

It is reported that the assistant Jassim to enforce the game will be referees from Qatar. The assistant referees will be Talib Mali and Saoud Markleh, the fourth referee will be Saud Adeba, and Hamis Mali will be the assistant video referee, and the assistant video referee will be Abdulrah Ateba. What exactly will the Qatari referees give in the match? The answer can only be found in the game.