On March 24 and 29, the Chinese team will face Saudi Arabia in the 9th round of the World Preliminary Round in Qatar and Oman in the 10th round. The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned on March 9 that the AFC has confirmed the list of referees for these two matches. A group of Emirati referees with Hassan as the referee and a group of Korean referees with Gao Hyungjin as the main referee will respectively enforce the Sino-Saudi and Sino-Arab matches. The two have repeatedly enforced the match between the Chinese team and the Chinese club team, and are absolutely "familiar faces" in the eyes of the Members of the Chinese team. Since the Chinese team has not been able to reach the final stage of the World Cup in Qatar in advance, the team does not have to pay too much attention to the referee's law enforcement in these two games, but relaxes its mentality and plays its technical level normally.
Hassan
As is customary, the AFC will confirm the referee assignment information for the round of the round at least half a month before the round of the Round of 12 matches. Recently, the AFC also determined the referee arrangement information for the national football team's home game against Saudi Arabia on March 24 and oman on the 29th. According to the specific list, the two matches were enforced by 1 group of Korean international referees and 1 group of UAE referees.
Both groups of referees are familiar to the Chinese team. The group of Emirati referees who enforced the March 24 China-Saudi Arabia match had collectively enforced the match between the national football team and Vietnam in the third round of the round of 12 matches on October 7 last year. Among these 6 people, the Chinese team is most familiar with the referee Hassan. Counting the upcoming China-Saudi Arabia competition, he will have a total of 5 match enforcement matches against the Chinese team. Coincidentally, all 5 matches were played within the UAE.
Previously, he had oversaw the 2019 Asian Cup group stage match in which China won a 2-1 reversal over Kyrgyzstan and the quarter-final match in which China won a 2-1 reversal over Thailand. In the group stage of the 2015 Asian Cup, the Chinese men's team won 2-1 against Uzbekistan, which was also enforced by Hassan. In the first round of the last Round of 12, he also enforced the game in which The Chinese team lost 2-3 to south Korea.
The first match of the Chinese men's national football team, which was enforced by Hassan, took place in July 2012 , hassan went to Laos to enforce the first Asian U22 Championship qualifiers and lawn the match between the Chinese team and the North Korean team, the two sides drew 1-1, and the players who participated in the competition that year, Such as Zhang Xizhe, Wu Lei and Yan Junling, are currently also participating players in the national football team's final 12 competition.
For Hassan's strict law enforcement and good at playing cards, the Chinese club team participating in the AFC Champions League is also more familiar. In the first leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-final between Western Sydney Rangers and Guangzhou (Evergrande) in September 2014, Hassan played Guangzhou's Zhang Linpeng and Gao Lin in the 87th and 93rd minutes, and guangzhou coach Lippi was also expelled from the field for rushing inside to protest to Hassan.
According to the data, since 2013, Hassan has enforced 19 AFC Champions League matches in which Chinese Super League teams have participated, and the total results of Chinese Super League teams are 9 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses. In the past two years, affected by the epidemic and other factors, the number of games in hassan's law enforcement Super League clubs has decreased significantly. Its most recent enforcement came during the AFC Champions League East Asia Regional Group Stage in Doha in November 2020, when Shanghai Shenhua beat Australia's Perth Glory 2-1.
The list shows that the remaining five UAE referees in the law enforcement and Saudi Arabia matches are mohammed Ahmed Youssef Hamadi and Hassan Mohammed Mahri, and the fourth official is Adel Hamis Nakbi. The assistant referee for video is Amar Ali Juma Gianabi. Serving as Assistant Video Assistant Referee (AVAR) is Omar Mohammed Hassan Ali.
Gao Hengjin
A group of South Korean referees who enforced the March 29 national football away match against Oman had also collectively enforced the first round of the national football team's away match against Australia on September 2 of last year. The six are referee Ko Hyung-jin, 1st Assistant Referee Yoon Jae-yeol, 2nd Assistant Referee Park Sang-joon, Video Assistant Referee (VAR) Kim Jong-hyuk, assistant Video Referee (AVAR) Kim Dae-youngung.
It is worth noting that Gao Hyung-jin, Kim Hee-kun, Kim Jong-hyuk and Kim Dae-yong among the 6 have all come to China many times to enforce the Chinese Super League or have repeatedly enforced international competitions in which Chinese teams participate. Among them, Kim Jong-hyuk came to China 10 years ago to assist in the law enforcement of the Chinese Super League competition. He then played as the AFC elite referee for the 2015 Asian Cup final and the first leg of the 2015 AFC Champions League final against Guangzhou (Evergrande) in Dubai, UAE.
As for Jin Da Rong, he is also an old acquaintance of the Chinese team and Chinese fans. For example, he has also lawned the 22nd round of the 2018 Chinese Super League guangzhou (Evergrande) vs Beijing Guoan team, which decided the "battle of Tianwangshan" that decided the championship of the season. He also enforced the first half of the national football round of 40 away defeat to Syria. Since then, Kim Dae-yong has also participated as the fourth official in the enforcement of the second half of the round of 40 matches in which the national football team won the Syrian team. It should be said that most of the members of the Chinese team are more familiar with the law enforcement characteristics of these referees. And because they are also "regular customers" invited by the Chinese Football Association to enforce the law in China. Therefore, for their impartial law enforcement, the Chinese team should have more confidence.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Zhao
Editor/Yingchuan Zhang