FIH: Umpire Yamada Celebrates Golden Whistle on Final Day of Pan American Games

It was a picture-perfect moment for Japan’s Emi Yamada who umpired her 100th international game on 4 November at the XIX Pan American Games in Santiago at Estadio Nacional de Chile. Known as the “Golden Whistle” achievement, Yamada becomes just the fourth Japanese official to reach the milestone following women’s umpires Naomi Kato (1997), Kazuko […]