World Cup: French judges Frappart and Turpin retained until the end of the competition.

Among the French who will be able to enjoy a little more of their World Cup in Qatar, not only Didier Deschamps, his players and their fans. There are also Clement Turpin and Stephanie Frappart, the two central French judges selected for the competition, as well as two of Turpin’s assistants, Nicolas Danos and Cyril Gringore.

According to a list published by FIFA, 16 “First Team” referees, as well as 30 assistants and 5 video referees, have been released by FIFA for the remainder of the World Cup, with only eight games left to play with four quarters, two halves, a small final and a final. Thus, among the 20 surviving center judges are Clement Turpin and Stephanie Frappart.

While Frappart became during Costa Rica-Germany the first woman to referee a World Cup match, two other female center referees, Salima Mukansanga and Yoshimi Yamashita, were not selected, while “they were part of the seven center referees, who have not had been called up for any match during this World Cup as chief referee.

The controversial Bakary Gassama, referee for the play-off between Algeria and Cameroon, whose name is at the heart of Samuel Eto’o’s rampage against the Algerian videographer, has also been released, as has New Zealander Matthew Conger, who will surely lose in World Cup history as the first annulled goal after the final whistle of the match. Unfortunately for the French, it was Antoine Griezmann’s match against Tunisia.

At the moment, the referee teams of the first two quarter-finals are known. The team of Croatia and Brazil will be led by Englishman Michael Oliver, while the team of Argentina and the Netherlands will be led by Spaniard Antonio Mateu Laos.