Sandro Meira Ricci (born 19 November 1974) is a retired
Brazil
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ian
football referee and currently serves as a TV refereeing analyst for
Globo Network. He refereed at
2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the match between
Ecuador
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and
Paraguay
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on 26 March 2013.
In March 2013, FIFA added Ricci to its list of candidate referees for the
2014 FIFA World Cup.
Ricci was the Brazilian referee at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, along with assistant referees Emerson de Carvalho and Marcelo Van Gasse. During his debut match France-Honduras, which was played on 15 June 2014, he was the first referee in the world to validate a goal by means of the newly introduced
goal line technology. He was selected once again to be the Brazilian referee at the
2018 FIFA World Cup on Russia. After the tournament, he announced his retirement as a referee. After stepping down on his referee career, he was hired as a football refereeing and
rules analyst
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by Globo.
"''Globo anuncia Sandro Meira Ricci como comentarista de arbitragem''(Globo announces Sandro Meira Ricci as a refereeing pundit)"
Lance!
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History
Its tabloid format as ...
, 09 January 2019. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
Referring Statistics
References
1974 births
Living people
Brazilian football referees
Brazilian people of Italian descent
2014 FIFA World Cup referees
FIFA World Cup referees
Copa América referees
2018 FIFA World Cup referees
Football referees at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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