Fahad Jaber Al-Marri ( Arabic: فهد المري ; born 1986 , Qatar ) is a Qatari professional football referee [1] .
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| Full name | Fahad Jaber Al-Marri | |||||||||
| Born | 1986 Qatar | |||||||||
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| Category | FIFA | |||||||||
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Biography
Born in 1986 in Qatar.
FIFA Arbitrator since 2012 [2] . Judges the matches of the Qatar football championship . He was involved in the matches of the Swiss Challenge League [3] . At the international level, serves the matches of national teams and the AFC Champions League . Included in the extended list of judges recommended for work at the games of the 21st World Cup in Russia [4] .
In June 2017, he involuntarily turned out to be a participant in an international scandal related to the severance of diplomatic relations of some countries with Qatar, accused of supporting terrorist organizations. The Football Association of the United Arab Emirates sent a letter to the FIFA General Staff with a request to replace the referee team composed of Al-Marri and his assistants Yousef Al-Shamari, Juma Al-Burashad and Saud Al-Azab, who were scheduled for the match between the UAE and Thailand 13 June [5] .