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Stone House and Graefe "Referee of the year"

Steinhaus und Grafe “Schiedsrichter des Jahres”Referee of the year: Manuel Grafe © SID-IMAGES/GASPA /.

Bibiana Steinhaus and Manuel Grafe are the referee of the year. The referee Commission of DFB chaired by Herbert Fandel came to this decision.


Frankfurt/Main (SID) - Bibiana Steinhaus (Hannover) and Manuel Grafe (Berlin) are the referee of the year. The referee Commission of the German Football Association (DFB) chaired by Herbert Fandel came to this decision.


Stone House, which itself can make hopes to whistle the Bundesliga games, in the next season was named referee of the year in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. As first Unparteiische she began refereeing games in the men's regional League since the season 2007 / 2008 matches in the 2nd Bundesliga and for ten years. 2010, it was at the U20 World Cup of women in Germany in use. The 32 year old from the World Federation FIFA as one of 16 arbiter has been nominated for the women's World Cup this year.


Graefe is referee of the DFB since 1999. Since 2001, he has the 2nd Bundesliga games since 2004 meetings of the Bundesliga and since 2007, games at FIFA level.


The awards conferred Brazil Graefe and stone house on 10 August in Stuttgart in the framework of the German national football team against record world champion match.