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SYDNEY (AP) — A third male football code in Australia will have a female referee next season.Kate Jacewicz Cheap Manchester United Soccer Team Uniform , an eight-time referee of the year in the women’s soccer W-League, has been added to the A-League’s refereeing panel for the 2019-20 season. Jacewicz’s most recent assignment was refereeing two matches at this year’s Women’s World Cup in France.Her appointment follows the first female field umpire in the Australian Football League, Eleni Glouftsis, and National Rugby League referee Belinda Sharpe www.thetopsoccer.com/club-team-kit/marseilles , who became the first woman referee in a professional rugby league match earlier this year.“Kate is without doubt one of the leading referees in the world at any level,” Football Federation Australia chairman Chris Nikou said.Jacewicz’s appointment comes after Stephanie Frappart refereed the European Super Cup match between Liverpool and Chelsea in Istanbul two weeks ago. She was the first woman to officiate a major European men’s final.Bundesliga referee Bibiana Steinhaus has officiated in the top flight in Germany for several seasons and was the first woman in Europe to take regular charge of top-tier men’s matches. Bernardo Silva will miss Manchester City’s home match against Chelsea after being banned for one game for posting a tweet which compared teammate Benjamin Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos chocolates.The midfielder admitted to an “aggravated breach” of rules because the post referenced race.He was also fined 50,000 pounds ($64,000) and ordered to complete face-to-face education. The Premier League game Silva misses is on Nov. 23 after the international break against third-place Chelsea Cheap Real Madrid Soccer Team Uniform , which is immediately above City.The FA commission accepted Silva “did not himself intend the post to be insulting or in any way racist” and was a “joke between close friends.”But the FA verdict added that it “was not a private jocular communication between two friends. The post was on a social media platform exposed to the 600,000 followers of a high-profile and well-respected professional footballer.”Silva wrote a letter to the FA, expressing regret for any unintentional offense caused by the tweet.It shows a picture of Mendy when he was a kid alongside the character found on a packet of Conguitos, which are chocolate-covered nuts made in Spain. Both Mendy and the character are black.Mendy www.thetopsoccer.com/club-team-kit/tottenham-hotspur , who is close friends with Silva having also played with the Portugal international at French club Monaco, issued a supporting statement with Silva’s letter, saying he did not take offense.