An international referee since 1994, Codjia was a referee at the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006, the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999 and 2003 and the African Cup of Nations in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, in which he was the referee for the final, and 2010.
Codjia was indefinitely suspended by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for not taking action against Algeria's Fawzi Chaouchi, who appeared to head-butt him in a semi final of 2010 African Cup of Nationssemi-final game against Egypt.[1] Chaouchi, who was later sent off for a second bookable offence, received a three match ban by CAF for the headbutt.[2]
coffi, codjia, born, december, 1967, beninese, football, referee, international, referee, since, 1994, codjia, referee, fifa, world, 2002, 2006, fifa, confederations, 1999, 2003, african, nations, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, which, referee, final, 2010, codj. Coffi Codjia born December 9 1967 is a Beninese football referee An international referee since 1994 Codjia was a referee at the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006 the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999 and 2003 and the African Cup of Nations in 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 in which he was the referee for the final and 2010 Codjia was indefinitely suspended by the Confederation of African Football CAF for not taking action against Algeria s Fawzi Chaouchi who appeared to head butt him in a semi final of 2010 African Cup of Nations semi final game against Egypt 1 Chaouchi who was later sent off for a second bookable offence received a three match ban by CAF for the headbutt 2 Codjia was one of the 38 preselected referees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup 3 but did not make the final list of 30 4 He returned to international officiating duty in September 2010 refereeing a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying game between Liberia and Zimbabwe in Monrovia 5 References Edit Referee Bonaventure Koffi Codjia suspended by Caf BBC Sport 31 January 2010 Retrieved 13 October 2010 Edwards Peirs 17 March 2010 Algeria await Chaouchi appeal BBC Sport Retrieved 13 October 2010 List of prospective FIFA Referees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa PDF FIFA 22 October 2008 Archived from the original PDF on April 19 2009 Retrieved 23 November 2016 List of Referees and Assistant Referees PDF FIFA 27 May 2010 Archived from the original PDF on November 23 2016 Retrieved 23 November 2016 Matches of K Codjia Soccerway Perform Group Retrieved 23 November 2016 External links EditFIFA profile Archived 2006 06 15 at the Wayback Machine Reuters profile This biographical article related to Beninese association football is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Coffi Codjia amp oldid 1050765650, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
