This coming Sunday will begin Qatar World Cup and it includes the second adventure Spanish referee’s World Cup Antonio Mateu Lahoz. The Valencian made history as he became the second Spanish referee to participate in two World Cup events and that too consecutively. Single Juan Gardeazábal He surpassed him because the referee was in three consecutive World Cups, in the appointments of Sweden 1958, Chile 1962 and England in 1966.
A World Cup that can only be reached by those selected as Ortíz de Mendibil in Mexico 1970, Lamo Castillo in the 1982 World Cup in Spain, former president Sánchez Arminio in Mexico 1986 or the current president of the CTA, Luis Medina Cantalejo, who attended the World Cup in Germany in 2006 where he also came as the fourth referee in the final between Italy and Germany marked by the expulsion of Zidane with his historic headbutt on Materazzi.
Seven yellows and no reds among their predecessors
five These are the matches in which Mateu Lahoz has participated until now as a referee in the World Cup. The two in the group stage in Russia. His debut was on 21 June 2018 in the Denmark-Australia match which ended in a draw to one. Meeting where the Valencian showed two yellow cards to Danish Poulsen and Sisto. Five days later, he officiated his second and to date his last game as the main referee at the World Cup. It was Iceland 1 Croatia 2, a meeting in which he came to show up to five yellow cards. Three of them in Iceland and the remaining two in the Croatian team.
But Mateu Lahoz’s role did not end there because the Valencian stayed three more games where he acted as the fourth college. It will also be Croatia-Nigeria in the group stage with Brazil-Mexico in the round of 16 and Sweden-England in the quarterfinals.
It ended there first World Cup adventure cFIFA appointed the twelve referees who remained for the semifinals, third and fourth place along with the final of the last World Cup event. Pau Cebrian and Roberto Díaz were accompanied as assistants in this first adventure and are now repeating in Qatar. In addition, there will be three other VAR referees; Martínez Munuera, Hernández Hernández and De Burgos Bengoechea, with Spain being the country with the most referees in the VOR room.
Source: La Verdad
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