| Sandro Ricci | ||
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| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sandro Meira Ricci | |
| Date of birth | 19 November 1974 | |
| Place of birth | Minas Gerais,  Brazil
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| Domestic | ||
| Years | League | Role |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | Referee | |
| International | ||
| Years | League | Role |
| 2011– | FIFA listed | Referee |
Sandro Meira Ricci (born 19 November 1974) is a Brazilian football referee. He refereed at 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the match between Ecuador and Paraguay on 26 March 2013.
In March 2013, FIFA added Ricci to its list of candidate referees for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Ricci was the Brazilian referee at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, along with assistant referees Emerson de Carvalho and Marcelo Van Gasse. During his debut match France-Honduras, which was played on 15 June 2014, he was the first referee in the world to validate a goal by means of the newly introduced goal line technology.
| 2014 FIFA World Cup Referees |
| AFC |
|
Ravshan Irmatov · Yuichi Nishimura · Nawaf Shukralla · Ben Williams |
| CAF |
|
Noumandiez Doué · Bakary Gassama · Djamel Haimoudi |
| CONCACAF |
|
Joel Aguilar · Mark Geiger · Marco Antonio Rodríguez |
| CONMEBOL |
|
Enrique Osses · Néstor Pitana · Wilmar Roldán · Sandro Ricci · Carlos Vera |
| OFC |
|
Peter O'Leary |
| UEFA |
|
Felix Brych · Cüneyt Çakır · Jonas Eriksson · Björn Kuipers · Milorad Mažić · Pedro Proença · Nicola Rizzoli · Carlos Velasco Carballo · Howard Webb |
| 2018 FIFA World Cup Referees |
| AFC |
| CAF |
| Mehdi Abid Charef · Malang Diedhiou · Bakary Gassama · Gehad Grisha · Janny Sikazwe · Bamlak Tessema Weyesa |
| CONCACAF |
| Joel Aguilar · Mark Geiger · Jair Marrufo · Ricardo Montero · John Pitti · César Arturo Ramos |
| CONMEBOL |
| Julio Bascuñán · Enrique Cáceres · Andrés Cunha · Néstor Pitana · Sandro Ricci · Wilmar Roldán |
| OFC |
| Matthew Conger · Norbert Hauata |
| UEFA |
| Felix Brych · Cüneyt Çakır · Sergei Karasev · Björn Kuipers · Szymon Marciniak · Antonio Mateu Lahoz · Milorad Mažić · Gianluca Rocchi · Damir Skomina · Clément Turpin |