The French benoit bastien was appointed to preside over the meeting this Saturday Spain-Norwaywhich corresponds to the first day of the qualifying phase for the Eurocup in Germany 2024. Bastien, born in Epinal 39 years ago and international since 2014, will be assisted on the wings by Hicham Zakrani and Aurelien Berthomieu and the fourth referee is Thomas Leonard.
The match will be played on Saturday starting at 8:45 pm at the La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga and will mark the debut as national coach of Luis de la Fuente after taking over from Luis Enrique Martínez.
Spain and Norway are unbeaten with the French referee, leading the Reds to victories over Belgium (0-2) in a friendly in Brussels on September 11, 2016; against Croatia (6-0) in the Nations League at Martínez Valero in Elche in October 2016 and against Ukraine (4-0) in September 2018 at Alfredo di Stéfano in Madrid, also in the Nations League.
He led the Nordic team against San Marino (4-1) in October 2016 in the World Cup qualifiers and against Austria in Vienna (1-1) in the League of Nations in November 2020.
This campaign he led Sevilla against Copenhagen in a Champions League match played in October, where the Andalusian team won 3-0. Subsequently, he refereed the Conference League matches Fiorentina-Sporting Braga (3-2) and Istanbul Basaksehir-Ghent (1-4).
Source: La Verdad
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