One of the last male domains in the football: Germany gets its first Bundesliga referee. For the German football is a long-overdue step for the person Concerned is a “dream”.
Exactly 16,383 representing League games there was to the present day. Not a single one of them was headed by a woman. Exactly will change in the coming season: 54 years, Bundesliga had to go into the country, before the first woman is anpfeifen a game of the highest German play class – Bibiana Steinhaus. The 38-year-old police officer from Hanover, will lead from next season as the first referee League games. For German football, a historical brand, for you a special Moment.
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“It was always my dream,” said stone house to the Association portal dfb.de “the fact That this dream should now come true, met me with great joy.” So far, the stone house only had 2. Bundesliga refereed in the Bundesliga was a regular as the Fourth Official. She is one of four newcomers on the list of Arbitrators, the DFB-Executive Committee confirmed at its meeting in Frankfurt on Friday. In addition to stone house, and Martin Petersen (32 years old), Sven Jablonski (27) and Sören Storks (28) the League will soon be-Impartial. As Wolfgang Stark, Guenter Perl, and Jochen Drees retirement, increases the number of the first-League Referees from 23 to 24.
Really stone house was not surprised by the nomination. With the Team of DFB referee boss Lutz Michael Fröhlich stone house standing “in constant dialogue”. Nevertheless, the stone house, the on 1. June, the Champions League final of the women will lead, after the call of Cheerful, in his own words “pretty speechless”: “It was a turbulent roller coaster ride of emotions.”
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