[WORLD CUP] Swede Martin Hansson, whose failure to call Thierry Henry‘s handball duringFrance’s World Cup 2010 qualifier against Ireland in November caused one of the greatest controve rsies in modern soccer history, is among the 30 referees FIFA selected for the World Cup finals. No American was among the four Concacaf referees picked.

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