The head referee of the World Cup final will be Slavko Vin\u010di\u0107, a highly regarded Slovenian official who said his initial reaction to the selection was “a shock, then happiness.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI was shaking, so it\u2019s an incredible honor to get the World Cup final,\u201d Vin\u010di\u0107 said in an interview shared by FIFA. \u201cIt\u2019s only a dream for a referee, for a young referee when they start. So, I\u2019m very proud, very proud of myself, my team.”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to put everything into words, but I\u2019m very proud to represent my country, Slovenia, in the biggest sporting event in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vin\u010di\u0107 has worked as an official for FIFA since 2010 and has experience in highly consequential matches, having worked 72 Champions League and Europa League matches. He worked the 2024 Champions League final between Dortmund and Real Madrid. This is his third World Cup.<\/p>\n
Fellow Slovenians Tomaz Klancnik and Andraz Kovacic will work the match as Vin\u010di\u0107’s assistant referees. Adham Makhadmeh, from Jordan, will be the fourth official.<\/p>\n
Pierluigi Collina, FIFA’s chief refereeing officer and the chairman of FIFA’s referees committee, said that a referee’s “performances are (what) matter the most” in being selected to work such an important match. But “also the fact that his team is not playing (in) this competition.” Slovenia failed to qualify for this tournament, but will still be represented in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head referee of the World Cup final will be Slavko Vin\u010di\u0107, a highly regarded Slovenian official who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-772866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}