Khalil Al Ghamdi

Al Ghamdi at the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Khalil Ibrahim Al Ghamdi (Arabic: خليل الغامدي‎; born September 2, 1970) is a Saudi Arabian football referee. He is known for having officiated the football tournament in the AFC Asian Cup League. He has been a FIFA international referee since 2003.[1]

Biography

Outside of refereeing, he works as a teacher and lives in Riyadh.[2] He has also officiated the games at the 2008 Olympics, 2006 FIFA Club World Cup and qualifiers for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup.[3]

He was preselected as a potential referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup,[4] with his selection confirmed on February 5, 2010. He refereed the Group A match between Mexico and France, on June 17, 2010, and the Group H match between Switzerland and Chile, on June 21, 2010.On November 6, 2010. He was the referee for the final match of the 2010 AFC Cup Final, Al-Qadsia vs. Al-Ittihad at the Jaber International Stadium in Kuwait City.

Served matches Asian Cup 2007 Football Tournament 2008 Summer Olympic Games, in the opening match of the football tournament in the match between Brazil and Belgium (1-0) showed two red cards Belgian players. At the world championships and 17 years old judged match 1/8 finals between the teams of Brazil and Russia (3-1) when the score was 0-0 and a redcards Russian players suspected of partiality to the Brazilians

Honor

See also

References

  1. ↑ FIFA list of Saudi Referees.
  2. ↑ Biography at worldreferee.com
  3. ↑ Games list at worldreferee.com
  4. ↑ List of prospective 2010 FIFA World Cup referees

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/referees/referee=196839/index.html

Preceded by
Iran Masoud Moradi		 AFC Cup final match referees
2010
Saudi Arabia Khalil Al Ghamdi 		Succeeded by
South Korea Kim Dong Jin
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