Ali Mohamed Bujsaim (Arabic: علي بوجسيم, born September 9, 1959, in Dubai) is a retired association football referee from the United Arab Emirates, who is best known for supervising matches at three FIFA World Cups: 1994 (two matches), 1998 (three matches) and 2002 (two matches).

In 2002, he was a referee in the Argentina-Sweden match, where he made a decision to give a red card to Claudio Caniggia, when the latter cursed at him, making Caniggia the first player in world cup history to be expelled while still at the bench.

References

• Profile at weltfussball.de at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-26) (in German)

External links

• Ali Bujsaim at WorldReferee.com
• Ali Bujsaim referee profile at WorldFootball.net
• Ali Bujsaim referee profile at Soccerway

Preceded by AFC Asian Cup Final 1996 Mohd. Nazri Abdullah

AFC Asian Cup Final Referees 2000 Ali Bujsaim

Succeeded by AFC Asian Cup Final 2004 Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli

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