Victor Gomes, who has recently been appoint as Referees Committee chairperson of the South African Football Association, has been invited to a top FIFA seminar.
Gomes, 40, hung up his whistle earlier in the year after the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar but is widely considered one of the continent’s greatest-ever officials.
He has now been invited to a seminar for FIFA referee and fitness instructors to take place in Madrid, Spain, from 27-31 March 2023.
“The invitation is from FIFA’s director of refereeing, Massimo Busacca, who together with Head of refereeing administration, Patrick Graf, and Dominic Chielens, the FIFA refereeing manager, said the seminar is part of the world football governing body FIFA’s Refereeing Development Programme,” SAFA stated.
Gomes is traveling to Europe with the intention to take advantage of this seminar to interact with global individuals on how to accelerate the establishment of the VAR process in the country.
Lately, SAFA has met with both CAF and FIFA leaders to take the process forward, and both Gomes and SAFA President Dr Danny Jordaan are keen to see this historic project get off the ground.
Earlier in the Gomes, who took charge of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and Egypt as well as last year’s CAF Champions League final between Al Ahly and Wydad Athletic Club, was voted as the fifth-best referee world-wide in 2022.
