His name is Mark Geiger and he is living his dream  on the greatest Soccer stage in the WORLD.

He is a referee for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil!

Geiger is a Toms River resident who left being a Math Teacher at Lacey High school after 17 years. Geiger always dreamed of being a World Cup referee, and back in 2013 he quit his teaching career to pursue being a professional soccer referee

Leaving teaching was a hard thing for him to have to do he said, and added “It was something that I had to do if I wanted to continue refereeing,”

Geiger got an email in January that he made the cut as a World Cup referee!

“(The World Cup) is certainly a dream come true,” Geiger says. “Every ref or player or coach wants to get to the top of his career, and this is certainly it"

Read the entire story of  Mark Geiger here

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