The college of the Committee of Madrid Carlos Del Cerro Grande tomorrow his career will end in the Conference League final between Italian Fiorentina and English West Ham in Prague after a twenty-year career in arbitration, which he referred to as “a university of life”.
“It’s a university of life. You learn to make decisions and trust yourself. I will return to arbitration in the future… it is impossible to imagine that I am not related to it in some way,” he said in a statement published on uefa.com on Tuesday, a day before their final official meeting.
Del Cerro, 47, commented that a “referee must show courage and especially mental strength”, in addition to “self-criticism” because “you cannot improve if you are not honest to yourself.”
“You have to be humble and have your feet on the ground. You can feel like a king after a good game and then the next one is not going well, so it’s always better to have perspective. Your next game is always a new challenge .” , he pointed out.
Thirty years of racing
Del Cerro, who extended his career until now because he was selected for the last European Championship, like Antonio Mateu Lahoz, because in Spain the age limit for active referees is 45 years, he started directing matches in 1993 and in 2010 he passed the First Division, three years before becoming an international.
This season he directed five matches in the Champions League, including the second leg of the quarterfinal between Inter Milan and Benfica, and one in the Conference League.
The refereeing team of the final
Tomorrow he will lead the arbitration team for the final in the Czech capital, where he will rely on VAR with Juan Martinez Munuerawith the Jesus Gil Manzano as fourth officer and mate Guadalupe Porras Ayuso, who debuted in the Champions League in September in Naples-Liverpool, as an assistant, with Pau Cebrián Debis, in addition to Alejandro José Hernández Hernández and the Portuguese Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins as video assistants.
Source: La Verdad
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