Gyöngyi Gaál

Gyöngyi Krisztína Gaál (born June 29, 1975 in Ajka ) is a Hungarian football referee who is also used internationally.

Career

Their first international game led Gaál on 1 June 2002 with the encounter Romania to Croatia . In 2005 she was appointed to her first appearance at a European Women's Championship , where she headed two games. Her first appointment to a women's world championship followed in 2007 when she whistled four games. She was reappointed for the next European Championship in 2009 and was allowed to direct three games.

She was also appointed to the 2011 World Cup in Germany. There she came under strong criticism because she overlooked an obvious handball by the Guinean player Bruna in her own penalty area in the game Australia against Equatorial Guinea and consequently did not give the due penalty.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official profile on FIFA.com
2. ↑ Profile on Weltfußball.de
3. ↑ Sport1.de: Absurdly referee blackout of Gaal: Not WM-ripe