An tabbatar da cewa alkalin wasa dan Brazil Wilton Sampaio zai jagoranci wasan kusa da kusa na karshe 16 tsakanin Netherlands da Morocco a gasar FIFA World Cup 2026, wanda zai gudana a Monterrey.

Ana sa ran wannan wasan zai zama daya daga cikin manyan gwagwarmayar zagayen fitar da kai na farko. Netherlands sun fita daga Rukunin F a matsayin zakara, duk da cewa sun daure da Japan 2-2 a farkon wasan farko nasu, kafin su lashe nasara mai kayatarwa kan Sweden da Tunisia. Morocco kuma sun gama a matsayi na biyu a Rukunin C bayan Brazil ta hanyar bambancin kwal — nasarori biyu da daidaito daya sun ishe su fita.

Tafiyar Sampaio a gasar

Sampaio ya sha fuskanci takaddama a wannan gasar. Alkalin da ke da shekara 44 ya jagoranci wasan budsawa wanda South Africa ta sha kashi 0-2 a hannun Mexico a filin wasa na Azteca, inda ya ba da katin ja ga Yaya Sithole da Themba Zwane na South Africa, da kuma Cesar Montes na Mexico — 'yan wasa uku da aka kora a wasa guda daya.

Wasansa na biyu ya kasance mai natsuwa: Sampaio ya jagoranci nasarar Norway 3-2 akan Senegal ba tare da ya fitar da katin wata iri ba.

Masu goyon bayan England kuma za su tuna da Sampaio daga gasar FIFA World Cup 2022, inda ya jagoranci wasan kusa da karshe da England ta sha kashi 1-2 a hannun France.

Cikakken tawagar alkalai

Sampaio zai sami taimakon 'yan kasarsa Bruno Pires da Bruno Boschilia a matsayin mataimakan alkalai. Cristian Garay na Chile zai zama alkalin hudu, yayin da dan kasa Jose Retamal ke aiki a matsayin alkalin ajiya. Cikakkun bayanai game da tawagar VAR ba a tabbatar da su ba tukuna.

A wani bangare na zagayen karshe 16, Canada — daya daga cikin kasashe masu masaukin baki — ta zama kasa ta farko da ta tabbatar da wuri a wannan zagayen, bayan ta doke South Africa da kwal a lokacin dakatarwa. Brazil za su yi wasa da Japan yayin da Germany ke fuskantar Paraguay a sauran wasannin Litinin.