Below, find refereeing highlights of all sixty-four games at FIFA World Cup 2010, the last before the Blatter-ordered revolution in FIFA Refereeing, as the tournament reaches its tenth anniversary. A review of the tournament will appear next week on my friend and I's blog, Whistles of the Past. Enjoy! Group Stage, Round 1 South Africa - Mexico, Ravšan Ėrmatov (11th June) Uruguay - France, Yūichi Nishimura (11th June) Korea Republic - Greece, Michael Hester (12th June) Argentina - Nigeria, Wolfgang Stark (12th June) England - United States, Carlos Eugênio Simon (12th June) Algeria - Slovenia, Carlos Batres (13th June) Serbia - Ghana, Héctor Baldassi (13th June) Germany - Australia, Marco Rodríguez (13th June) Netherlands - Denmark, Stéphane Lannoy (14th June) Japan - Cameroon, Olegário Benquerença (14th June) Italy - Paraguay, Benito Archundia (14th June) New Zealand - Slovakia, Jerome Damon (15th June) Côte d'Ivoire - Portugal, Jorge Larrionda (15th June) Brazil - Korea DPR, Viktor Kassai (15th June) Honduras - Chile, Eddy Maillet (16th June) Spain - Switzerland, Howard Webb (16th June) Group Stage, Matchday 2 South Africa - Uruguay, Massimo Busacca (16th June) Argentina - Korea Republic, Frank De Bleeckere (17th June) Greece - Nigeria, Óscar Ruiz (17th June) France - Mexico, Khalil Al-Ghamdi (17th June) Germany - Serbia, Alberto Undiano Mallenco (18th June) Slovenia - United States, Koman Coulibaly (18th June) England - Algeria, Ravšan Ėrmatov (18th June) Netherlands - Japan, Héctor Baldassi (19th June) Ghana - Australia, Roberto Rosetti (19th June) Cameroon - Denmark, Jorge Larrionda (19th June) Slovakia - Paraguay, Eddy Maillet (20th June) Italy - New Zealand, Carlos Batres (20th June) Brazil - Côte d'Ivoire, Stéphane Lannoy (20th June) Portugal - Korea DPR, Pablo Pozo (21st June) Chile - Switzerland, Khalil Al-Ghamdi (21st June) Spain - Honduras, Yūichi Nishimura (21st June) Group Stage, Round 3 Mexico - Uruguay, Viktor Kassai (22nd June) France - South Africa, Óscar Ruiz (22nd June) Nigeria - South Korea, Olegário Benquerença (22nd June) Greece - Argentina, Ravšan Ėrmatov (22nd June) Slovenia - England, Wolfgang Stark (23rd June) United States - Algeria, Frank De Bleeckere (23rd June) Ghana - Germany, Carlos Eugênio Simon (23rd June) Australia - Serbia, Jorge Larrionda (23rd June) Slovakia - Italy, Howard Webb (24th June) Paraguay - New Zealand, Yūichi Nishimura (24th June) Denmark - Japan, Jerome Damon (24th June) Cameroon - Netherlands, Pablo Pozo (24th June) Portugal - Brazil, Benito Archundia (25th June) Korea DPR - Côte d'Ivoire, Alberto Undiano Mallenco (25th June) Chile - Spain, Marco Rodríguez (25th June) Switzerland - Honduras, Héctor Baldassi (25th June) Round of Sixteen Uruguay - Korea Republic, Wolfgang Stark (26th June) United States - Ghana, Viktor Kassai (26th June) Germany - England, Jorge Larrionda (27th June) Argentina - Mexico, Roberto Rosetti (27th June) Netherlands - Slovakia, Alberto Undiano Mallenco (28th June) Brazil - Chile, Howard Webb (28th June) Paraguay - Japan, Frank De Bleeckere (29th June) Spain - Portugal, Héctor Baldassi (29th June) Quarterfinal Netherlands - Brazil, Yūichi Nishimura (2nd July) Uruguay - Ghana, Olegário Benqurença (2nd July) Argentina - Germany, Ravšan Ėrmatov (3rd July) Paraguay - Spain, Carlos Batres (3rd July) Semifinal Netherlands - Uruguay, Ravšan Ėrmatov (6th July) Germany - Spain, Viktor Kassai (7th July) Third Place Playoff Uruguay - Germany, Benito Archundia (10th July) Final Netherlands - Spain, Howard Webb (11th July)
I remember two things about that world cup. The great job by Irmatovs AR in the opener and the famous boot to the chest in the final.
Anyone diving in deep here might be interested in the contemporary analyses threads, which were here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forums/world-cup-2010-refereeing.1427/ Also, @Mikael_Referee , likely nothing you can do about it but some American servers reject .ru extensions (and some people just choose to avoid them). So you might not get as much engagement here as you would if they were hosted elsewhere.