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David Socha

American soccer referee

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born: 1938
died: 2025
age at death: 86
known for: association football referee, association football player

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David Stanley Socha was an American soccer referee. 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. At Portsmouth, he was a reserve.

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