Brazil 2014: Referee Appointment for 3rd Place Match – Brazil v Holland
The match to decide who’ll finish third in the World Cup tournament will be refereed by Algeria’s Djamel Haimoudi. Match 63 will be between Brazil and the Netherlands.
The 43-year-old Djamel Haimoudi will become the first African Zone (CAF) referee to officiate a third place match of a FIFA World Cup.
His World Cup record is:
| Match | Yellows | Red |
| Australia 2 Holland 3 | 2 | |
| Costa Rica 0 England 0 | 3 | |
| Belgium 2 USA 1 | 2 | |
| Total | 7 | 0 |
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Saturday 12 July Brazil v Netherlands 9pm BST (5pm Brazilian local time) at the Estadio Nacional, Brasilia
Referee: Djamel HAIMOUDI (Algeria)
Assistant Referees: Redouane ACHIK (MAR) and Abdelhak ETCHIALI (ALG)
Fourth official: Yuichi NISHIMURA (JPN)