Aug 4 (Reuters) – Former \u2060Premier League and World Cup referee Anthony \u2060Taylor has joined the Turkish Central \u200cRefereeing Committee as director of elite refereeing, the organisation said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taylor retired last month following a 22-year \u200bcareer spanning 831 matches. The \u206047-year-old’s final refereeing assignment \u2060was the Portugal v Spain World Cup round-of-16 \u2060game \u200cin Dallas last month.<\/p>\n
\u2022 “Having officiated at the highest levels of domestic and \u2060international football, I welcome the opportunity to \u200bbring that \u200cexperience to a role focused on the \u2060strategic and \u200btechnical development of elite refereeing in Turkey,” Taylor said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u2022 “I will work with colleagues \u2060across the Federation to support \u200bthe continued development of its match officials and strengthen the wider refereeing programme, in line with \u2060UEFA and FIFA standards.”<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taylor is the latest former English top-flight referee to move abroad after retirement, following Howard Webb and Mark Clattenburg, \u200bwho both held senior refereeing \u2060roles in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taylor spent 16 \u200bseasons refereeing in the Premier \u200cLeague, overseeing 432 matches in \u200bEngland’s top flight.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Paras J. Haji in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 4 (Reuters) – Former \u2060Premier League and World Cup referee Anthony \u2060Taylor has joined the Turkish Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,6675,85],"class_list":["post-843329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}