Officials for the 2010 FIFA World Cup are selected from a pool of 30 trios of referees and assistant referees announced by the association football governing body, FIFA, on 5 February 2010.[1] The final cut was selected from a group of 38 referees revealed in October 2008,[2] themselves whittled down from an initial group of 54 selected for the Refereeing Assistance Programme in 2007.[3] From the quarter-finals onwards, the pool of referees was reduced to 19.[4]
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