Yuichi Nishimura

Yuichi Nishimura is a Japanese football referee. He has refereed in the Japanese J. League Division 1 since 1999 and has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2004. He refereed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where he was appointed to several prestigious matches, including as fourth official on the final. He also refereed the opening game in the 2014 FIFA World Cup between hosts Brazil and Croatia, his poor performance in which was criticized. He refereed the second leg of the 2014 AFC Champions League final between Al Hilal and Western Sydney Wanderers in which his performance was heavily criticized also.

17 April 1972

Born on the same birth date (17 April 1972): Gary Bennett (baseball) • Jennifer Garner • Muttiah Muralitharan • Terran Sandwith • Tony Boselli

Born on the same birth day (17 April): A. Thiagarajah • Alanna Goldie • Andrea Gritti • Bud Paxson • Buster Williams • Cynthia Ozick • Edouard Wyss-Dunant • Ernest Starling • Evangelos Averoff • Ferdinand Piëch • Gilles Lamontagne • Giovanni Battista Riccioli • Jan Hammer • Jennifer Garner • Jo-Wilfried Tsonga • Lindsay Hartley • Mikael Åkerfeldt • Neville McNamara • Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie • Paraskevi Papachristou • René Moawad • Vladimir Polyakov (pole vaulter) • Zhang Yaokun

Born in the same month (April 1972): Aaron Lewis • Anders Thomas Jensen • Bernard Ackah • Catherine McCormack • Gary Bennett (baseball) • Jason Bargwanna • Jennie Garth • Jill Scott (singer) • Priit Kasesalu • Rab Douglas • Remo D'Souza • Rosa Clemente • Siiri Vallner • Terran Sandwith • Tim Peake • Zane Lamprey