World Cup 2018: Referee Fahad Al-Mirdasi dropped for attempted match fixing in Saudi Arabia

Fahad Al-Mirdasi refereed at the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia and took charge of the third-place play-off between Portugal and Mexico

 Fifa has dropped Saudi Arabian official Fahad Al-Mirdasi from the 2018 World Cup after he was prohibited for a match-settling endeavor in his nation. 

Al-Mirdasi, 32, was at that point restricted from administering for life by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF).

The body claims he admitted to attempting to settle the King's Cup last between Al-Ittihad and Al-Faisaly.

In the wake of thinking about confirmation, Fifa said "the conditions to be chosen for the World Cup are not fulfilled any longer".

World football's overseeing body additionally remained down Mohammed Al-Abakry and Abdulah Al-Shalwai, the two colleague officials who were because of work with Al-Mirdasi.

As indicated by the SAFF, Al-Mirdasi's wrongdoing included him reaching an Al-Ittihad official, who gave the messages over.

His admission arrived a long time before he was because of travel to Russia for the World Cup and the SAFF said he conceded requesting the degenerate installment in the wake of being taken into police guardianship.

Al-Mirdasi has been a Fifa ref since 2011.

Fifa's refs board of trustees picked not to supplant him straightforwardly at the World Cup yet have rather called up two colleague refs - Hasan Al-Mahri from the UAE and Japan's Hiroshi Yamauchi.

They will work with Mohammed Abdulla of UAE and Ryuji Sato of Japan separately, who had just been named to direct at the competition.


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