Steinhaus Webb leaves DFB: Change to the English referee-association

The former top referee Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb leaves the German Football Association (DFB) and will endeavor in England to improve the arbitrator system. DFB's farewell to the 42-year-olds announced on Monday two days after their use as a video assistant in the women's finale of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo between Canada and Sweden.

Steinhaus-WebB is therefore responsible in the homeland of her husband Howard Webb, as well as a former world-class referee, in the English referee association for the selection of female impartial.

"The women's football in England puts completely new standards with the current framework conditions. I am looking forward to the great opportunity to share my diverse experience as a referee with the impartial in England and support them to exploit their full potential as well as resilient structures within the association To implement optimal development, "explained Steinhaus-Webb. The German referee boss Lutz-Michael Fröhlich described the future post of the prominent policewoman as a "new milestone in her career in football".

However, the contact between Steinhaus Webb and the DFB should not break off completely. In the course of their change, Steinhaus-Webb is to contribute significantly to an exchange between the DFB and the English Association FA in referee issues.

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Even before her Olympia deployment in Japan, Steinhaus-Webb was changing as a referee to the warehouse of the video wizards over a year after completing their active career. Her last match had led the seven-time referee of the year before in the fall of 2020 at the Supercup between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

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In 2017, Lower Saxon was the first woman to the bundle of the Bundesliga referees and later also used internationally in men's games. Until 2020, Steinhaus-Webb led a total of 23 encounters in the German Oberhaus and also led the Olympic Envasia of women in 2012 in London as well as between 2009 and 2019 several encounters for three World Worm WM and EM tournaments. Most recently, Steinhaus-Webb was also in conversation as a candidate for the vacant president post at DFB.