Ali Mohamed Bujsaim (Arabic: علي بوجسيم, born September 9, 1959, in Dubai) is a retired association football referee from the United Arab Emirates, who is best known for supervising matches at three FIFA World Cups: 1994 (two matches), 1998 (three matches) and 2002 (two matches).
In 2002, he was a referee in the Argentina-Sweden match, where he made a decision to give a red card to Claudio Caniggia, when the latter cursed at him, making Caniggia the first player in world cup history to be expelled while still at the bench.
References
- Profile at weltfussball.de at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-26) (in German)
External links
- Ali Bujsaim at WorldReferee.com
- Ali Bujsaim referee profile at WorldFootball.net
- Ali Bujsaim referee profile at Soccerway
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Preceded byAFC Asian Cup Final 1996 Mohd. Nazri Abdullah
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AFC Asian Cup Final Referees 2000  Ali Bujsaim
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Succeeded byAFC Asian Cup Final 2004 Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli
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