Despite the controversy, Marciniak

The best game in the world today, like the Champions League final, needs the best referee in the world. And that is nothing but simon marciniaka 42-year-old Pole facing his second big date in just seven months.

On December 18, the whole world was awaiting their decisions on the World Cup final that was played in Qatar Argentina and France. And in all of them he made the right decision. No one suggested that just seven months later he could once again be the judge of the second best fight the world can see today. In the finals of the Champions League. This is the first time we have attended something like this. That FIFA and UEFA have agreed on their final referee.

And less so when UEFA appointed him for the second leg semifinal in between City of Manchester and real Madrid. This dynamic is unusual in the European arbitration establishment, more in favor of protecting the chosen referee between cotton and leaving him to any assignment from previous rounds. Another rule Marciniak is responsible for destroying.

A final one who almost did not whistle when it was learned that on May 29 he participated in an action of an extreme right party known for its xenophobic, homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic positions. UEFA has opened an investigation that could eliminate this second dream. They finally chose to continue counting on a Marciniak who also issued a statement apologizing for his behavior.

A sane referee, no mess

He is a sober referee, without chaos, who imposes his authority on the field without the need for chaos and without having to use cards to achieve it. Marciniak running away from the limelight, although many times he cannot achieve it because of this ‘look’ of a muscular man, in addition to his shaved head like the historical hill and current president of FIFA’s arbitration body.

Marciniak putting an end to a clean season and in which he participated in all rounds of the highest continental competition. He won four games in the group stage and was then assigned to the round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals. He was in the quarters when his path crossed Inter Milan on his visit to Porto and in the semifinals with City of Manchesterin a 4-0 win against real Madrid.

He whistled the derby in the 2018-2019 European Super Cup

Now he will be the main referee of a match where he has already acted as the fourth referee in the 2018 edition. Tonight is his second great continental final. The only precedent goes back to the European Super Cup of the 2018 and 2019 seasons that faced real Madrid as champions of the Champions League and in Atletico Madrid. A final debt of history Marciniak that a very difficult year and a half did not pass with the end of the pandemic. Several heart problems and persistent tachycardia forced him to withdraw from arbitration and miss Euro 2021.

Tonight he will be with his inseparable team made up of his countrymen Pawel Sokolnicki and Tomasz Listkiewicz. So is Romanian istvan kovacs will be the fourth referee. The brothers are also in VAR Thomas Kwiatowski and Bartosz Frankowskiin addition to German Marco Fritz.