FIFA Appoints Noumandiez Doue To Handle Nigeria/ Kenya Clash.

World football-governing body, FIFA has appointed Ivorian official Noumandiez Doue as centre referee for next month’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Kenya’s Harambee Stars in Nairobi.

FIFA named Doue, who became an international referee in 2004, alongside his compatriot Songuifolo Yeo, the first Assistant Referee, Burundian Jean-Claude Birumushahu the second Assistant Referee and another Ivorian Denis Dembele to take charge of the game scheduled for fifth of June, 2013 at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.

Next month’s duel is no less important, with the Eagles topping Group F on goals difference.

Similarly, FIFA also appointed renown Mauritanian Idrissa Sarr as the Referee Assessor while Mazen Marzouk from Egypt will be the Match Commissioner. Wilhelmus van Rhee from The Netherlands will be the Security Officer.

Sarr, a former FIFA-graded referee, was the centre referee for the Final match of the 1988 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, which Nigeria lost 0-1 to Cameroon.