Gelareh Nazemi Shortlisted for 2021 Best Referee in World
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian woman referee Gelareh Nazemi will vie with nine other referees to receive the Best Referee in the World award in 2021.
The Futsal Planet website, which introduces the nominees for receiving the best awards in the futsal world at the end of each year, has put the name of the Iranian among the top 10 nominees to receive the best referee award this year.
She is the first Iranian to officiate at a FIFA-run futsal tournament.
Nazemi officiated the match between Dominican Republic and Cameroon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and then at the 2019 Women's Futsal Cup in Portugal.
In October 2021, she officiated at the FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Gelareh Nazemi’s competitors in this field are Nurdin Bukuev (Kyrgyzstan), Juan José Cordero Gallardo (Spain), Mohamed Hassan Hassan Ahmed Youssef (Egypt), Alejandro Martinez Flores (Spain), Valeria Nicole Palma Palma (Chile), Chiara Perona (Italy), Maria Estefania Pinto (Argentina), Antony Riley (New Zealand) and Irina Velikanova (Russia).
