Pending fitness tests, the following referees have been chosen for the 1998 World Cup, and will be joined by 33 referee’s assistants (linesmen): Asia — Abdul Rahman Al Zeid (Saudi Arabia), Ali Mohamed Bujsaim (UAE), Masayoshi Okada (Japan), Pirom Un-Prasert (Thailand). Africa — Said Belqola (Morocco), Gamal Ghandur (Egypt), An-Yan Lim Kee Chong (Mauritius), Lucien Bouchardeau (Niger), Charles Masembe (Uganda). CONCACAF — Esse Baharmast (USA), Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico), Ramesh Ramdhan (Trinidad & Tobago). Europe — Marc Batta (France), Gunter Benko (Austria), Pierluigi Collina (Italy), Hugh Dallas (Scotland), Paul Durkin (England), Anders Frisk (Sweden), Jose Manuel Garcia Aranda (Spain), Bernd Heynemann (Germany), Nikolai Levnikov (Russia), Urs Meier (Switzerland), Manuel Melo Pereira (Portugal), Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark), Rune Pedersen (Norway), Laszlo Vagner (Hungary), Mario Van der Ende (Netherlands). Oceania — Edward Lennie (Australia). South America — Javier Castrilli (Argentina), Epifanio Gonzalez Chavez (Paraguay), Marcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil), Mario Sanchez Yanten (Chile), Alberto Tejada (Peru), John Jairo Toro Rendon (Colombia).