It happened four times in football's history that an English referee took charge of a World Cup final. For The FA, that has been reason enough to nominate a quite unorthodox refereeing team for their anniversary friendly between England and Scotland.
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Elite referee Felix Brych of Munich has been selected to head an intercontinental team of match officials comprising pre-selected World Cup assistant referee Alessandro Rocha De Matos of Brazil and South Africa's Enock Molefe, who ran the lines at FIFA World Cup 2010 along with Jerome Damon. Suisse Alain Bieri completes the team as fourth official. The officials' nations are targeted at represent the hosting nations of the four World Cups where English referees handled their finals (George Reader at WC 1950 in Brazil, William Ling at WC 1954 in Switzerland, Jack Taylor at WC 1974 in Germany and Howard Webb at WC 2010 in South Africa).
Some friendlies on 14 and 15 August:
England - Scotland
Referee: Felix Brych (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Rocha De Matos (BRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Enock Molefe (RSA)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Italy - Argentina
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan-Hendrik Salver (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Mike Pickel (GER)
Fourth Official: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Portugal - Netherlands
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Mauro Tonolini (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Riccardo Di Fiore (ITA)
Fourth Official: João Capela (POR)
Germany - Paraguay
Referee: Ivan Bebek (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Tomislav Petrović (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Miro Grgić (CRO)
Fourth Official: Christian Dingert (GER)
Ecuador - Spain
Referee: Wilmar Roldán (COL)
Assistant Referee 1: Wilson Berrio (COL)
Assistant Referee 2: Rafael Rivas (COL)
Fourth Official: Carlos Vera (ECU)
Switzerland - Brazil
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Guido Kleve (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Markus Häcker (GER)
Fourth Official:
Sweden - Norway
Referee: Michael Oliver (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Simon Bennett (ENG)
Fourth Official: Anthony Taylor (ENG)
Belgium - France
Referee: Craig Thomson (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Alan Mulvanny (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Damien Macgraith (IRL)
Fourth Official: Yves de Neve (BEL)
Turkey - Ghana
Referee: Matej Jug (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Robert Vukan (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Gregor Rojko (SVN)
Fourth Official: Darko Ceferin (SVN)
Hungary - Czech Republic
Referee: Howard Webb (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Mike Mullarkey (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Simon Long (ENG)
Fourth Official: Mike Dean (ENG)
Bosnia & Herzegovina - United States
Referee: Damir Skomina (SVN)
Assistant Referee 1: Primož Arhar (SVN)
Assistant Referee 2: Marko Stančin (SVN)
Fourth Official: Irfan Peljto (BIH)
Ukraine - Israel
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Roman Slyško (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Tomáš Mókoš (SVK)
Fourth Official: Serhiy Skrypak (UKR)
Austria - Greece
Referee: Richard Trutz (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Balko (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Peter Chládek (SVK)
Fourth Official: Ján Valášek (SVK)
Romania - Slovakia
Referee: Neil Doyle (IRL)
Assistant Referee 1: Wayne McDonnell (IRL)
Assistant Referee 2: Ciaran Delaney (IRL)
Fourth Official: Ionut Marius Avram (ROU)
Bolivia - Venezuela
Referee: Imer Machado (COL)
Assistant Referee 1: Alexander Guzmán (COL)
Assistant Referee 2: Cristian De La Cruz (COL)
Finland - Slovenia
Referee: Simon Lee Evans (WAL)
Assistant Referee 1: John Bryn Roberts (WAL)
Assistant Referee 2: Philip Thomas (WAL)
Fourth Official: Bryn Markham-Jones (WAL)
Japan - Uruguay
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Pawel Sokolnicki (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Radoslaw Siejka (POL)
Fourth Official:
Poland - Denmark
Referee: Yudai Yamamoto (JPN)
Assistant Referee 1: Toshiyuki Nagi (JPN)
Assistant Referee 2: Shinji Ochi (JPN)
Fourth Official: Marcin Borski (POL)
Mexico - Côte d'Ivoire
Referee: David Gantar (CAN)
Assistant Referee 1: Joe Fletcher (CAN)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Belleau (CAN)
Fourth Official: Edvin Jurisevic (USA)
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