2002 FIFA World Cup - Referees

Referees

Africa
  • Gamal Al-Ghandour
  • Coffi Codjia
  • Mourad Daami
  • Mohamed Guezzaz
  • Falla N'Doye
Asia
  • Ali Bujsaim
  • Toru Kamikawa
  • Kim Young-Joo
  • Lu Jun
  • Saad Mane
Europe
  • Pierluigi Collina
  • Hugh Dallas
  • Anders Frisk
  • Terje Hauge
  • Antonio López Nieto
  • Urs Meier
  • Vítor Melo Pereira
  • Markus Merk
  • Ľuboš Micheľ
  • Kim Milton Nielsen
  • Graham Poll
  • Kyros Vassaras
  • Gilles Veissière
  • Jan Wegereef
North, Central America and Caribbean
  • Carlos Batres
  • Brian Hall
  • William Mattus
  • Peter Prendergast
  • Felipe Ramos
Oceania
  • Mark Shield
South America
  • Ubaldo Aquino
  • Byron Moreno
  • René Ortubé
  • Óscar Ruiz
  • Ángel Sánchez
  • Carlos Simon

There was much controversy over the refereeing in the tournament. Questionable decisions in the Italy-South Korea match resulted in 400,000 complaints, and featured in ESPN's 10 most fabled world cup controversies. The Spain-South Korea match featured 2 wrongly disallowed Spanish goals, which Iván Helguera referred to as "a robbery" and lead to Spanish press brandishing the officials "thieves of dreams," though FIFA dismissed the incident as human error.

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