Leading Soccer Referee Howard Webb MBE Backs Squash 2020 Olympic Bid by Howard Harding 7 June 2013
- Leading internationally-recognised soccer referee Howard Webb MBE
today added his voice to the campaign to get Squash into the Olympic
Games. His support follows on from the International Olympic
Committee's (IOC) decision last week to shortlist Squash as a potential
sport to join the Olympic Programme for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Howard Webb, MBE, a FIFA-listed referee since 2005, ranked as one of
the top referees of all time by the International Federation of
Football History & Statistics, and the first referee to officiate
the UEFA Champions League Final and FIFA World Cup in the same year,
said:
"I'm delighted that Squash has recently been shortlisted for
consideration for the 2020 Olympic Games. It is a truly athletic sport
which is played in all corners of the globe - one which thoroughly
deserves to be part of the Olympic Games programme."
WSF CEO Andrew Shelley added: "I would like to thank Howard for
supporting Squash's bid and I am delighted to see the growing list of
famous sportsmen and women from different sports around the world
backing our bid.
"Howard has played a key role in some of football's biggest moments and
has first-hand experience of the passion, intensity and dedication
required to compete at the highest level in sport. This is a really
exciting time for squash across the world and the IOC vote in Buenos
Aires on September 8 is something the global squash community is
utterly focussed on."
