Mark Shield

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Mark Shield (born September 2, 1973) is an Australian football referee. He started his refereeing career after not being picked in his local junior football team. When not officiating matches, he is a company director in Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia. His first international match was New Zealand-Norway on 22 January 1997.

1 2002 World Cup
2 2006 World Cup
3 Asian Champions League Final
4 Nomination for 2006 AFC Referee Of The Year
5 External links

[edit] 2002 World Cup

Shield served as an official at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. He was the youngest official to referee at the World Cup Finals and was only given one relatively low-profile match, which took place during the group stage. On June 10, 2002 he officiated the 1-1 tie between Belgium and Tunisia. He handed out five yellow cards.[1]

[edit] 2006 World Cup

Shield was selected to referee at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, again serving as the tournament's youngest referee. He officiated the Iran-Angola match and the Saudi Arabia-Tunisia match, both in group play. He handed out an average of five yellow cards and no red cards in the matches.

Shield was also selected as one of the final 12 officials eligible to officiate the final eight matches of the Cup.[2] He was appointed the fourth official to the Portugal-France semi final.

[edit] Asian Champions League Final

In late 2006, Shield was appointed to referee the all-important second-leg of the AFC Champions League final between Al Karama (Syria) and Jeonbuk Motors (South Korea) was played on Wednesday 8 November at the Khaled Bin Al Waleed Stadium. Jeonbuk Motors won the AFC Champions League after Brazilian striker Ze Carlo's 88th minute header gave them a 3-2 aggregate victory over Al Karama. Al Karama won the second leg of the final 2-1 but the Brazilian's late goal made the difference after the Koreans won the first leg 2-0.