Knut Kircher has actually been the DFB’s head of umpires given that the summertime. In the SWR Sport program, the 55-year-old anticipated that Fabienne Michel from Mainz would certainly be the following lady to whistle in the Bundesliga in the future.
“I think that the next woman will soon be refereeing in the first league. We have Fabienne Michel in the third league. She’s really doing a very good job there, so she has a clear chance of moving up,” claimed Kircher and introduced that an increase in umpires can also take place rather quickly: “I believe that we won’t have to wait that long given the development that it is currently taking.”
The 30-year-old Michel has actually been whistling in the third organization given that the summertime of 2023. Shortly in the past, she had actually officiated the ladies’s DFB Cup last in between VfL Wolfsburg and SC Freiburg (4-1) in May 2023.
Fabienne Michel is Referee of the year 2024
In her very first year in the 3rd department, Michel did such an excellent task that she was just recently called“DFB Referee of the Year” The umpire that whistles for TSV Gau-Odernheim was honored as part of the Women’s Super Cup between FC Bayern and VfL Wolfsburg (1-0) on August 25th this year Another emphasize for her after right before the main round game in the men’s DFB Cup between Villingen and Heidenheim (0:4) was permitted to lead.
Appearances in the second organization and later on in the Bundesliga would certainly be the following sensible actions for Michel on the occupation ladder. She can therefore come to be Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb’s follower. The Lower Saxony lady was the very first lady to sign up with the rankings of Bundesliga umpires in 2017 and was later on made use of globally in guys’s video games. By 2020, Steinhaus-Webb had actually led a total amount of 23 conferences in the German top residence.
Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb was a leader
The seven-time umpire of the year officiated her last video game in fall 2020 at the Supercup in between Bayern Munich andBorussia Dortmund After finishing her energetic occupation as an umpire, she functioned, to name a few points, as a video clip aide and as an ARD umpire specialist at the home European Championships in 2024. In the future, Steinhaus-Webb will certainly drive ahead and aid form the growth of ladies’s refereeing in support of FIFA as head of the ladies’s division of the “Referee Subdivision”.
Broadcast on Sun, October 13th, 2024 9:45 p.m., SWR Sport, SWR
