{"id":403338,"date":"2025-09-06T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:55:14","slug":"officials-confirmed-for-germany-vs-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403338\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials confirmed for Germany vs. Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Simo Frigol\u00e9<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kettusport\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:100%;color:#1da1f2;\" rel=\"noopener\">@kettusport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norwegian referee Espen Esk\u00e5s will lead a group of six officials for the match in K\u00f6ln on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11522.jpg\" alt=\"Espen Esk\u00e5s before the Club World Cup knockout match between Real Madrid and Juventus, 1. July 2025.\" title=\"Espen Esk\u00e5s before the Club World Cup knockout match between Real Madrid and Juventus, 1. July 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"zypor_article_image_text\">Espen Esk\u00e5s before the Club World Cup knockout match between Real Madrid and Juventus, 1. July 2025.<\/td>\n<td id=\"zypor_creative_linktext\">(Photo by Kevin C. Cox \/ Getty Images)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Norwegian referee Espen Esk\u00e5s has been announced as the main official for the Germany &#8211; Northern Ireland match on Sunday (20:45 CET) in K\u00f6ln.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Erik Engan and Anders Olav Dale are the assistant referees, and on the touchline will be Sigurd Kringstad. All four officials on the ground are from Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The video assistant referee will be Italian official Marco Di Bello, and his assistant is Norwegian, Tom Harald Hagen.<\/p>\n<p>37-year-old Esk\u00e5s has officiated one match involving Germany in his career, that being a 2-1 victory for the national team against the Netherlands in a friendly in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Simo Frigol\u00e9@kettusport Norwegian referee Espen Esk\u00e5s will lead a group of six officials for the match in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-403338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115158877811612575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}