fullname internationalyears birth_place league internationalrole birth_date confederation role image article_title name
sandro meira ricci 2011 -- poços de caldas , minas gerais , brazil campeonato brasileiro série a referee 19 november 1974 fifa listed referee sandro ricci , fifa referee 2015.jpg sandro ricci
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sandro ricci

sandro meira ricci -lrb- born 19 november 1974 -rrb- 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 confirmed as the brazilian referee for 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 .
