George Ayoub
Full name | George Joseph Peter Ayoub | ||
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Date of birth | October 23, 1963 | ||
Place of birth | Sydney, Australia[1] | ||
Rugby union career | |||
Refereeing career | |||
Years | Competition | Apps | |
2001-07 2000- |
Test Matches Super Rugby IRB Sevens World Series |
George Ayoub (born 23 October 1963) is an Australian professional rugby union referee. He is currently a member of the Super Rugby panel for Television Match Officials (known as TMO), and is a former Test Match referee.[2]
Born in Sydney, Ayoub trained as a teacher and took up refereeing in 1990 when he was a schoolmaster at St Patrick's College, Strathfield.[3][4] By 1995 he was refereeing senior rugby in Sydney and he was selected on the Australian referees panel in 1996.[4] He made his Super Rugby debut in May 2000, refereeing a Super 12 match between the Sharks and Chiefs in Durban.[5]
Ayoub was appointed to his first Test in May 2002 between Japan and Tonga,[6] and went on to referee 3 Tests and 17 Super Rugby matches before he retired at the end of 2007.[3] In 2008 he returned to international rugby as a TMO.[7]
References
- ↑ "George Ayoub". ESPN Scrum. 26 May 2002. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ↑ "George Ayoub". Australian Rugby. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- 1 2 "Ayoub retires from active refereeing". Planet Rugby. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- 1 2 "George Ayoub to retire". Rugby News. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014.
- ↑ "Ayoub to make Super 12 refereeing debut". ESPN Scrum. 1 May 2000. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ↑ "Japan v Tonga at Kumagaya". ESPN Scrum. 26 May 2002. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ↑ Hal, Louise (13 July 2008). "Super-fit but that just did not count". Fairfax. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.