Football female referee makes history
Pioneering football referee Stephanie Frappart became the first woman to take charge of a major men’s European Club match.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)— Pioneering football referee Stephanie Frappart became the first woman to take charge of a major men’s European Club match.
Today she’s poised to make history again, becoming the first woman to referee a men’s World Cup match.
The french-woman will form part of an all-female refereeing trio officiating Costa Rica vs. Germany in their group E Match.
She is one of six female match officials this World Cup.
