Sandro Ricci

Ricci (2015)

Sandro Ricci led the quarter-final match between Russia and Croatia at the 2018 World Cup

Sandro Meira Ricci (born November 19, 1974 in Poços de Caldas ) is a Brazilian football referee .

Career

With the start of the 2008/2009 season he leads Games in the Brazilian Série A . There he was elected the best referee in the country at the Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão in 2010. He has been a FIFA referee since 2011 . At the U20 World Cup in 2013 , he led four games, including a quarter-final and the third-place match. On December 21, 2013, he led the final of the FIFA Club World Cup between FC Bayern Munich and Raja Casablanca . He and his team were selected for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the 2016 Olympic Football Tournament and the 2018 World Cup in Russia . He was the 500th referee to oversee a game for the German team.

Sandro Ricci was the first referee to recognize a goal using the goal-line technique introduced for the 2014 World Cup .

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2014

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	15th June 2014	Porto Alegre	France	Honduras	3: 0 (1: 0)
Group stage	June 21, 2014	Fortaleza	Germany	Ghana	2: 2 (0: 0)
Round of 16	June 30, 2014	Porto Alegre	Germany	Algeria	2: 1 a.d. (0: 0)

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2018

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 16, 2018	Kaliningrad	Croatia	Nigeria	2: 0 (1: 0)
Group stage	June 26, 2018	Moscow	Denmark	France	0-0
Quarter finals	07th July 2018	Sochi	Russia	Croatia	2: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 3: 4 i. E.

Web links

• Sandro Ricci in the referee database of weltfussball.de

Private

Sandro Meira Ricci has been married to the Brazilian soccer referee Fernanda Colombo Uliana since 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA World Cup 2014 ( Memento of July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)