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American soccer referee (born 1938)

David Socha
International
Full name	David Stanley Socha
Born	(1938-09-27) September 27, 1938 (age 86) Springfield, Massachusetts
Years	League	Role
1979–1986	FIFA-listed	Referee

David Socha (born September 27, 1938) is a former soccer referee from the United States. He is best known for supervising two matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1982 and one in 1986. The 1982 match between Scotland and New Zealand marked the second ever World Cup match supervised by an American referee after Henry Landauer in 1970. Socha played in the semiprofessional leagues of the United States and two seasons for Portsmouth in the 1950s.

Socha is known to have served as a FIFA referee during the period from 1979 to 1986. His other international events include the 1984 Olympic tournament in Los Angeles and qualifying matches for the 1982 and 1986 World Cups. In the NASL, Socha was the head referee for Soccer Bowl '82, and for game 1 of Soccer Bowl '84. He was also an assistant referee at Soccer Bowl '78.

References

FIFA. "Match Report - Scotland - New Zealand 5:2 (3:0)" Archived June 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. June 15, 1982. Retrieved on June 5, 2013.
^ FIFA. "Match Report - Korea Republic - Italy 2:3 (0:1)" Archived July 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. June 10, 1986. Retrieved on June 5, 2013.
Vecsey, George (June 10, 1986). "Sports of the Times; Only Yank In the World". The New York Times. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
"The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
Reyes Padilla, Macario. "Mexico - International Results Details 1970-1979". RSSSF, September 18, 2008. Retrieved on June 5, 2013.
FIFA. "Match Report - Cameroon - Iraq 1:0 (1:0)". August 1, 1984. Retrieved on June 5, 2013.
"Honduras v Mexico, 22 November 1981". November 22, 1981. Retrieved on June 5, 2013.
"El Salvador v Honduras, 10 March 1985". March 10, 1985. Retrieved on June 5, 2013.
"NASL Soccer Bowl 84 - Game 1 (Sting vs. Blizzard) - First Half - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
"NASL Soccer Bowl 84 - Game 1 (Sting vs. Blizzard) - Second Half". YouTube.
TVS Broadcast footage

External links

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v t e Referees at the 1982 FIFA World Cup
AFC	Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy Thomson Chan
CAF	Yousef El Ghoul Benjamin Dwomoh Belaïd Lacarne
CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Luis Paulino Siles David Socha
CONMEBOL	Gilberto Aristizábal Luis Barrancos Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Gastón Castro Juan Daniel Cardellino Arturo Ithurralde Enrique Labo Revoredo Héctor Ortiz Mario Rubio Vázquez
OFC	Tony Boskovic
UEFA	Charles Corver Vojtech Christov Augusto Lamo Castillo Paolo Casarin Bogdan Dochev Walter Eschweiler Erik Fredriksson António Garrido Bruno Galler Alojzy Jarguz Abraham Klein Henning Lund-Sørensen Damir Matovinović Malcolm Moffatt Károly Palotai Alexis Ponnet Adolf Prokop Nicolae Rainea Myroslav Stupar Bob Valentine Michel Vautrot Clive White Franz Wöhrer

v t e Referees at the 1986 FIFA World Cup
AFC	Fallaj Al-Shanar Jamal Al Sharif Shizuo Takada
CAF	Ali Ben Nasser Edwin Picon-Ackong Idrissa Traoré
CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Antonio Márquez Ramírez David Socha Berny Ulloa Morera
CONMEBOL	Romualdo Arppi Filho Jesús Díaz Carlos Espósito Gabriel González José Luis Martínez Bazán Hernán Silva
OFC	Chris Bambridge
UEFA	Luigi Agnolin Horst Brummeier Valeri Butenko Vojtech Christov George Courtney André Daina Bogdan Dochev Erik Fredriksson Ioan Igna Jan Keizer Siegfried Kirschen Lajos Németh Zoran Petrović Alexis Ponnet Joël Quiniou Volker Roth Victoriano Sánchez Arminio Carlos Silva Valente Alan Snoddy

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