Alkalin wasa mai kwarewa daga Faransa, Clement Turpin, zai jagoranci wasan karshe na Rukunin D tsakanin Australia da Paraguay a Kofin Duniya na FIFA 2026, inda duka ƙungiyoyin suke fafatawa don wuri a zagaye na biyu.

Ƙungiyoyin biyu sun zo wannan wasan cikin yanayi iri ɗaya. Kowannensu ya sha kashi da ƙarfi a hannun United States — waɗanda sun riga sun tabbatar da matsayi na farko a Rukunin D — amma duka biyun sun dawo da ƙarfin guiwa ta hanyar kayar Turkey da cin nasara. Don haka, matsayi na biyu yana buɗe ga kowa.

Alkalin wasa

Wasan zai fara da karfe uku na safe bisa lokacin Birtaniya a San Francisco Bay Area Stadium da ke California. Turpin zai samu taimakon ƴan ƙasarsa Nicolas Danos da Benjamin Pages, yayin da Oshane Nation daga Jamaica zai yi aiki a matsayin alkalin wasa na huɗu.

Turpin ba sabon abu ba ne a babban fagen ƙwallon ƙafa na duniya. Wannan Bafaranshe ya rigaya ya yi aiki a lokutan Kofin Duniya na FIFA uku — a shekarun 2018, 2022, da kuma wannan bugu na ƙungiyoyi 48 da ke gudana a Arewacin Amurka. Wasan Australia da Paraguay shi ne aikinsa na biyu a matsayin alkalin wasa a Kofin Duniya 2026, bayan da ya riga ya jagoranci nasarar England a kan Croatia da ci 4-2.

Rikodin Turpin a Kofinkunin Duniya

A cikin wasanni shida na Kofin Duniya da suka gabata, Turpin ya riƙe matsakaicin ƙananan katin da ya kai 1.8 a kowace wasa. Duk da haka, baya jinkirin nuna alama ta bugun fanariti, tunda ya ba da fanaritoci huɗu a waɗancan wasanni shida.

Rikodinsa a ƙwallon ƙafa na kulob yana nuna hoton da ya bambanta. A cikin wasanni 74 na UEFA Champions League, Turpin ya ba da fanaritoci 41 kuma ya samu matsakaicin katin 3.8 a kowace wasa — lambobi da ke nuna tsaurin hukunci a matakin kulob fiye da na duniya.

Duka ƙungiyoyin — Australia da Paraguay — sun san cikakken ma'anar abin da ke hannunsu: ɗaya kawai daga cikinsu za ta iya ci gaba tare da United States daga Rukunin D.