Ghanaian referee Justice Yeboah has been placed on the stand-by list of match officials selected by football’s world governing body for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Yeboah gained the stand-by status after the Referee's Committee of FIFA evaluated the test results of 80 assistant referees at a workshop held in Germany, last year.

He is the stand-by list alongside four other Africans, including Damone Jerome, Molefe Enoch of South Africa, Mohamed Guezzaz, Djezarr Brahim both Moroccans and Enden Jean Marie of Cameroon. Five African referees are on the main list of officials for the competition.

Benin’s Kofi Codjia and Egyptian Abd El Fatah will be in the middle of the action while Nodoye Mamadou of Senegal, Ntagua Celestine of Rwanda, Aderodjou Aboudou of Benin and Dramane of Mali operate as assistants.