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Riem Hussein (*26). July 1980 in Bad Harzburg is a German football referee. She has been a DFB referee since 2005 and has been on the FIFA list since 2009. Hussein whistles for the TSG Bad Harzburg.

Career
Riem Hussein was an active footballer until 2005. As a striker she played in the 2004/05 season for the second division team MTV Wolfenbüttel and scored 18 goals of the season. After the season she became a DFB referee and initially headed games in the 2nd Bundesliga and from 2006 games of the Bundesliga. In addition, she was used in 2008 as an assistant referee in the DFB Cup final of the women. In 2009 she became FIFA referee and since then she has also led European Cup and international matches. On May 15, 2010, Hussein whispered the DFB Women’s Cup Final.
For the Women's Football World Cup 2011 she was engaged by ZDF as an expert. She was elected Arbitrator of the Year 2012/13.

For the men, Hussein has been whistling games of the fourth-class regional league since 2008. For the football season 2015/16 she rose to the 3rd league of men. As her first game she whistled there on the 2nd. Matchday the encounter Mainz 05 II against 1st FC Magdeburg. After Bibiana Steinhaus, she is the second referee to be used in professional German male football.

Hussein was the referee of the 2017 Algarve Cup.

On 3 December 2018 she was nominated for the Women’s World Cup 2019.

At the 2019 Cyprus Cup, she led two group matches as well as the final between North Korea and Italy, in which she expelled two North Korean women (one by a yellow-red card and another by a red card) from the field.

In 2020, she was again elected Arbitrator of the Year by the DFB.

Riem Hussein was selected for the 2020/21 UEFA Women’s Champions League final on 16. May 2021 in Gothenburg between Chelsea FC Women and FC Barcelona.

Women's tournaments

Assignments at the 2019 World Cup in France

Private
Hussein has Palestinian roots. She works as a pharmacist in a pharmacy in Bad Harzburg, which she runs together with her sister and brother. In 2009 she received her doctorate in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Her dissertation, prepared by Christel Müller-Goymann, is titled Characterization of Hard Fat Matrices and Lipid Nanosuspensions with Phospholipone 90 H.

Publications
Characterization of hard fat matrices and lipid nanosuspensions with phospholipone 90 H, Diss. TU Braunschweig 2009 (also available online, with abstract)

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Individual evidence

Football player (MTV Wolfenbüttel)
FIFA referees (Germany)
Pharmacist (21st century)
German
Born in 1980
Woman