Alkalin wasa ɗan El Salvador Ivan Barton zai jagoranci wasan Rukuni D tsakanin Turkiyya da Paraguay a Levi's Stadium da ke Santa Clara — wasa mai matukar muhimmanci ga damar ƙasashen biyu na ci gaba a FIFA World Cup 2026.

Muhimmancin wasan a Rukuni D

Gaggawa a wannan wasa tana bayyana sosai lokacin da ka dubi matsayin Rukuni D. Amurka ta tara maki shida daga wasanni biyu bayan ta doke Ostiraliya ranar Juma'a, inda ta bar Turkiyya da Paraguay cikin halin dole su yi nasara. Ɗaukar kaye ga kowane ɓangare yana da alama zai ƙare mafarkin su na gasar.

Wane ne Ivan Barton?

Barton, wanda ke da shekara 35, yana wakiltar ɗaya daga cikin mafi ban sha'awa labaran ƙwallon ƙafa. Yana asalin El Salvador — ƙasa wacce ta cancanci shiga Kofin Duniya sau biyu, ta rasa dukkan wasanni shida da ta buga, tana kuma ci gol ɗaya ne kawai baki ɗaya. Wannan gol ɗin ya zo ne a lokacin kashi na 10-1 da ba a manta da shi ba a hannun Hungary a Kofin Duniya na 1982, shekara tara kafin haihuwar Barton kansa.

An saka shi a jerin alkalan wasa na FIFA tun 2018, Barton yana da cikakken gogewa a gasar CONCACAF da kuma wasanni da aka buga a Amurka, Kanada, da Mexico. Qatar 2022 ita ce Kofin Duniya nasa na farko, inda ya jagoranci wasanni uku masu ban mamaki: nasarar Japan mai burgewa a kan Germany a mataki na rukuni, nasarar Brazil a kan Switzerland, da kuma wasan England da Senegal a zagaye na 16.

Halinsa a wadancan wasanni uku na Qatar ya kasance mai kyau sosai — ya ba da katin gargadi ga 'yan wasa uku ne kawai a cikin dukkan wasanni uku gaba ɗaya, adadin da ya fi ƙasa da abin da yakan bayar a gasar cikin gida.

Labari daban a gida

Kwanciyar hankalin Barton a matakin duniya ya bambanta ƙwarai da gaske da halin da gasar cikin gida ta El Salvador take. A cikin wasanni 24 na gasar Apertura da Clausura a shekarun 2025 da 2026, ya ba da katin ja 12 kuma ya ba da matsakaicin kusan kati biyar na rawaya a kowace wasa. Har ila yau ya ba da bugun fanareti a kusan kowace wasa ta biyu, inda wasanni biyu masu tsanani na Clausura suka samar da bugun fanareti biyu kowanne.

Jami'an wasan Turkiyya da Paraguay

Barton zai sami taimakon abokan aikinsa ɗan El Salvador David Moran da Henry Pupiro na Nicaragua a gefen fili. Oshane Nation daga Jamaica yana aiki a matsayin jami'in huɗu, yayin da Khamis Al-Marri daga Qatar ke kula da VAR.