Jan Wegereef
Jan Wegereef (born January 17, 1962 in Rijssen ) is a Dutch football referee .
Wegereef is an arbitrator in the Dutch Eredivisie and internationally. He made his debut in Dutch professional football as the youngest referee until then in 1988. On September 28, 1995, he whistled his first UEFA Cup game, Ararat Yerevan against Dynamo Moscow .
At the 2002 World Cup , he directed the match between Senegal and Uruguay . He showed twelve yellow cards , a record at the soccer world championships at the time, which was broken again on the same day by the Spaniard Antonio López Nieto (16 cards, two of which were yellow-red, for Cameroon - Germany ).
Web links
- Interview with Wegereef ( memento of March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) of the Dutch Football Association from December 16, 2006, online version viewed on September 17, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Wegereef's international matches up to December 12, 2006 in the press kit for the game Fenerbahçe Istanbul against Eintracht Frankfurt at UEFA , online version viewed on September 17, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wegereef, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch football referee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rijssen , the Netherlands |