Turkish football federation president Haluk Ulusoy wants Beninese referee Coffi Codjia replaced for Sunday's game with Costa Rica in World Cup Group C.

Ulusoy's demand to Fifa was prompted by the performance of Kim Young-joo in Turkey's defeat to Brazil on Monday. The Korean awarded Brazil a late penalty for Alpay Ozalan's foul on Luizao, even though the incident took place outside the box.

"Kim Young-joo could not even referee in the Turkish second division," Ulusoy stormed. "I don't know where this World Cup is going with these referees.

"Now a referee from Benin will be in charge of our game against Costa Rica. I ask you, do you know where Benin is? Do they even have a league there?"

It will hardly encourage Ulusoy that Codjia looked out of his depth in the last major game he officiated, the African Nations Cup semi-final between Senegal and Nigeria in February.

Then he sent off three players, booked four others and was involved in a series of controversial moments.

Ulusoy also had words for Rivaldo, who could face a Fifa fine after feigning injury when Hakan Unsal kicked the ball at him late in Monday's game.

"I do not condone or approve of what Hakan did, but Rivaldo held his head and went down like he was having a brain haemorrhage, even though the ball hit his legs," he said.

The Turkish complaints about an official are not the only ones of the tournament. Russia have succeeded in having British referee Graham Poll removed from control of their match against Japan. Apparently Poll is unpopular in Russia after giving a last minute penalty to Slovenia in a qualifying game which condemned the Russians to defeat.