Mario van der Ende

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Mario van der Ende (born March 28, 1956, in The Hague, South Holland) is a retired football referee and coordinator from the Netherlands. He is mostly known for supervising five matches in the FIFA World Cup: three in 1994^[1] and two in 1998.^[2] Van der Ende also officiated one match in the 1996 European Championships,^[3] two UEFA Super Cup matches and many in the Champions League.^[4] In 1990, he got his FIFA badge as a referee. His hometown is Naarden. On 12 August 2008, Van der Ende was appointed as interim technical director for Australia to replace the outgoing Rob Baan.^[5]

Van der Ende retired from FIFA in 2001, due to cancer. He also appointed to retire many times, but he cured so he made a comeback. He still is a referee observer for FIFA and presently^[when?] works in Australia.