2023-06-09 21:04:29
The best game in the world right now, such as the Champions League final, requires the best referee in the world. And that is none other than Simon Marciniaka 42-year-old Pole who is facing his second big date in just seven months.
On December 18, the entire world was pending their decisions in the great final of the World Cup that faced in Qatar Argentina y France. And in all of them he made the right decision. Nothing suggested that just seven months later he could once again be the judge in the second best match that can be seen right now in the entire world. In the Champions League final. It is the first time we have attended something like this. That FIFA and UEFA agree on their final referee.
Messi and Marciniak, during the World Cup final in Qatar
And less when UEFA had designated him for the second leg semifinal between Manchester City y Real Madrid. This dynamic is not common in the European arbitration establishment, more in favor of protecting the chosen referee between cotton and leaving him out of any designation from previous rounds. Another rule that Marciniak has been responsible for breaking.
A final that was about to not whistle when it came to light that on May 29 he participated in an act of an extreme right-wing party known for its xenophobic, homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic positions. UEFA opened an investigation that could take away this second dream. Finally they chose to continue counting on a Marciniak who also issued a statement apologizing for his behavior.
A sober referee, without fuss
He is a sober referee, without fuss, who imposes his authority on the field without the need for fuss and without having to use the use of cards to achieve it. Marciniak flees from the limelight, although many times he cannot achieve it because of this ‘look’ of a corpulent man, in addition to his shaved head like the historical Hill and current president of FIFA’s arbitration body.
Marciniak puts the finishing touch to an immaculate season and where he has participated in all the rounds of the highest continental competition. He whistled four games in the group stage and has subsequently been designated in the round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals. Already in rooms he crossed paths with him Inter de Milan on his visit to Porto and in the semifinals with Manchester City, in the 4-0 win against Real Madrid.
He whistled the derby in the 2018-2019 European Super Cup
Today he will be the main referee of a match where he already acted as fourth referee in the 2018 edition. Tonight will be his second great continental final. The only precedent goes back to the European Super Cup of the 2018 and 2019 season that faced Real Madrid as champions of the Champions League and at Atletico Madrid. A final that history owed to Marciniak that a very hard year and a half did not pass coinciding with the end of the pandemic. Some heart problems and constant tachycardia forced him to have to leave arbitration and miss Euro 2021.
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Tonight he will be accompanied by his inseparable team made up of his compatriots Pawel Sokolnicki y Tomasz Listkiewicz. Also the Romanian Istvan Kovacs will be the fourth referee. The brothers will also be in the VAR Tomasz Kwiatowski y Bartosz Frankowskiin addition to German Marco Fritz.
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