According to Ma Dexing, a reporter from Sports Weekly, the 2022 Qatar World Cup Referee Candidate Seminar was recently held in Doha, and Chinese referees Maning and Shi Xiang were invited to participate, which means that they are one step closer to the dream of enforcing the World Cup.
The seminar lasted for five days, starting on 1 November and ending on 5 November, with 52 referees from four continents participating. According to the convention, the referees participating in the seminar should be based on groups, that is, one referee and two assistant referees, but due to the impact of the epidemic, this time a referee group is composed of a referee and an assistant referee, and all the personnel are in a total of 26 groups.
The seminar will be used as an important basis for the selection of referees in the final stage of the 2022 World Cup, With Ma Ning and Shi Xiang attending the meeting as representatives of Chinese referees, and Cao Yi, another assistant referee in the same group, did not attend due to the epidemic. They will compete with 8 other Asian referees.
"Sports Weekly" reporter said that because the other 8 groups of referee groups from Australia, Bahrain, Japan, Iran and other countries have the experience of enforcing the World Cup or the Olympic Games and other world competitions, so the referee group led by Manning is facing a disadvantageous position in competition with them, and at present, the final selected Asian referee group has a total of about 5 groups, but in any case, the probability of "8 out of 5" also means that Chinese referees are one step closer to appearing on the stage of the World Cup again.
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