On Jan. 17, the AFC made big news: 35-year-old Qatari international referee Abdulrahman Jassim, the man who made the
national soccer team
The "bitter master", who has had a lot of headaches, will referee China's away match against Japan on January 27th in the seventh round of the Qatar World Qualification Asian Zone Round of 12 match. Looking back, Jassim always seems to be a bit "biased" when it comes to the Chinese team. In 2019
Asian cup (e.g. soccer)
He blew the penalty for the national football team against South Korea and Iran, and the national football team failed to win in these two matches. In addition, Zhang Linpeng, He Jiao and other national football players have also been shown a yellow card or red card warning by him, so the national football team needs to be more vigilant this time to Japan.
According to the schedule of the tournament, China will face Japan away from home on the evening of January 27, local time. Prior to that, the AFC has confirmed that Bahraini referee Shukrara will officiate the February 1 match of the eighth round of the 12-team tournament, in which the national football team will face Vietnam on the road.
In fact, Shuklaara's enforcement is more fair. He served as a referee in the first round of this 12-team tournament when the national soccer team hosted Japan. Although the national soccer team eventually lost, the main reason for the loss was the strength gap.
In contrast, the upcoming referee of the "second match" between China and Japan, Jasim seems to be not "friendly" to the Chinese football team. According to statistics, since the 2014 season to become an elite referee of the AFC, Jasim has repeatedly enforced the Chinese and
China Super League (soccer league)
The team's international matches, such as Guangzhou's home match against Japan's Kashima Antlers in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the 2019 AFC Champions League season.
Jassim has been refereeing AFC Champions League matches since 2016. In his enforcement career in intercontinental tournaments, the first two red cards were awarded to Chinese players, namely Shanghai Harbour's Lu Wenjun (AFC Champions League 2016 season) and He Jiao (AFC Champions League 2017 season).
During the 2019 Asian Cup, Jassim had also enforced the national soccer team against South Korea and Iran, in which the national soccer team finished with 0-2 and 0-3 defeats. The then head coach of the national football team, Lippi, also expressed his dissatisfaction with his enforcement.
It is reported that the National Football Association (NFA) has arranged for active professional league referees to enforce the team's internal teaching matches during the training period in Shanghai, with the aim of allowing the players to adapt to the latest penalty rules and scales of the international football world. However, the face of a strong challenge away from Japan, the national football team needs to do a good job of pre-match preparation, strengthen physical training, stay focused and calm.
In addition, according to sources, the assistant referees for the China-Japan match on the 27th are also from Qatar, and they, along with referee Jassim, are regarded as Qatari
World Cup
Candidate Law Enforcement Referee.
