Bibiana Steinhaus is a German soccer referee, FIFA referee. He works as a police officer in the city of Hanover.
Dossier
Bibiana Steinhaus (photo above) was born on March 24, 1979 in Bad Lauterberg (Germany). Height - 181 cm, weight - 73 kg. German citizen. FIFA Referee since 2005. The main profession is a clerk. Relationship status: Single. In 2007, recognized as the best athlete in the city of Hanover. From 2007 to 2010 - The best judge in Germany.
Gaming career
Until the age of 16, Bibiana acted as part of the women's team of the Bad Lauterberg football club. He explains the early end of the player’s career by the fact that he does not consider himself an outstanding football player. Since 1995, periodically plays for the police team of Lower Saxony. Game position - defender.
Judging career stages
As a judge, Bibiana Steinhaus began serving football matches since 1995. These were fights of amateur and amateur teams. She was later admitted to refereeing clubs in the lower German regional leagues. Gradually, Babiana entered the service level of the German Cup matches, as well as the women's Bundesliga matches. Since 2001, she has been a judge with access to regional league games.
Bibiana played her first match as an assistant referee for the Second Bundesliga in March 2003. And in May of that year she was honored to judge the final meeting of the German Cup between the clubs Duisburg and Frankfurt. Since 2007, Bibiana received admission to the arbitration of fights in the Bundesliga-2. As a judge in the field, she made her debut in the match Hoffenheim - Paderborn. In the 2007/2008 season she was used as a substitute referee for the Bundesliga 1.
Since 2005, Bibiana Steinhaus has been a FIFA referee. And this means that she has the right to serve the fights of professional football players. In this capacity, she judged the matches of the Women's Champions League, as well as international meetings.
In November 2008, Bibiana, as a judge, participated in the Chilean Women's World Youth Championships, and in 2009, she served the European Championship matches in Finland. Her track record also includes meetings of the 2010 Women's World Cup in Germany. The peak of the refereeing career of Bibiana was the arbitration of the final match of the Olympic football tournament in England in 2012.
So far, her judicial career has 17 fights involving national teams, 12 European cup matches, 23 matches of the Bundesliga-2, 65 games of the German women's championship.
Curiosities and Facts
Any referee on the football field sometimes has funny and curious situations. Some referees, causing laughter, suddenly fall, while others, choosing the wrong position, are knocked down by a ball hit. In one amusing episode, during the Hertha-Alemania match, Bibiana Steinhaus was spotted.
Peter Niemeyer, patting the referee on the shoulder, accidentally touched her chest. But since he was looking in a completely different direction, the incident did not happen. It all ended with the player’s apology. The fragment of touch itself was long savored by the leading analytical football program of German television. The comments were accompanied by a stingy chuckle.
With regard to the appointment of a penalty, here, between the female referee and the football players of the injured side, there were practically no conflicts and protests. And although the referee herself believes that in this work the opportunities of women and men are equal, nevertheless, the representatives of the weaker sex have certain privileges. It is more difficult to express unpleasant words to them.
By the way, her last name can be translated into Russian as "a house of stone." Bibiana herself considers the work of a football referee similar to the work of a policeman: in both cases, it is necessary to ensure that people comply with the established rules. Note that this statement does not work, regarding the viewers. Sometimes she has to listen to the standard chant from the stands of the stadiums: “judge bitch”.
Family status
The fact that by 36 years of Bibiana Steinhaus the girl is unmarried, indirectly may indicate her sexual orientation. And although there is no information about this, this assumption is confirmed by her personal photographs. The photos themselves are posted on Bibiana's personal website, where she is in many pictures captured in an embrace with the same special female for several years.
As for her hobbies, this is primarily a sport. With free time, she loves reading books, loves traveling to exotic countries of the world.
In conclusion, I would like to note that in the history of the German championships there was a woman judge who, as a line referee, served two Bundesliga matches. Her name was Gertrude Gebhardt.
By the way, in 2003, a judge from Switzerland Nicole Petignat judged one European Cup match in the UEFA Cup tournament. It was a meeting between the Swedish club AIK and the Icelandic Falkir team. The fight itself ended in scandal due to the appointment by the referee of two very dubious penalties. After that, Nicole was not involved in matches of this level.