Monday, 11 June - Kiev - 2:45 EST Ukraine : Sweden Referee: Cuneyt CAKIR (TUR) Assistant referee: Bahattin Duran (TUR), Tarik Ongun (TUR) Additional assistant referee: Hüseyin Göçek (TUR), Bülent Yıldırım (TUR) Fourth official: Marcin Borski (POL) Reserve official: Marcin Borkowski (POL) UEFA Delegate: Jānis Mežeckis (LVA) UEFA Referee observer: Herbert Fandel (GER) Cakir has his full Turkish quintet assisting him. The fourth official is Borski of Poland. This thread is for all pre-, play-by-play, and post-match discussion of the referee and other officials on the match. Only news and analysis or other facts/information related to the referees and the officiating should be posted here. This is not a team or rivalry thread and will be heavily moderated to ensure it remains that way. Please read the stickied thread at the top of this forum if you have further questions. Thank you.
Rumored to be one of Collina's personal favorites, Cakir has had a meteoric rise and put Turkish refereeing back on the map. He will be the first Turkish referee to whistle at a EURO or World Cup since 1996. He seems a relatively safe bet to do the Champions League Final at some point in the next 3 years, barring something unforeseen. His major matches from the recent past: UCL: Barcelona v Chelsea (SF), Marseille v Inter (R16),Villarreal v Bayern, Man Utd v Benfica, Real Madrid v Lyon EL: Porto v Man City (R32), Bilbao v Man Utd (R16) EURO 2012 qualifiers: Lithuania v Scotland, Portugal v Norway, Sweden v Netherlands
I've been impressed the few times I have seen him. (Pre-emptive disclosure on all my future posts in this match: Sverige! Sverige! Sverige!)
Disclosure for me too, I really liked Let the Right One In and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Swedish versions of course. Oh and the Muppet chef!
Interesting coin flip. Also he asked the player what his call was before flipping...anyone else do that?
I usually do that. And most of the time I confirm that the captain of the other team has heard the call as well. No arguments.
I like it when refs call those little housekeeping fouls, just letting them know early, less arguments later. Also good call on the trapping of the players legs there.
Good foul call, reasonable caution. Swedish defender shouldn't have gone down for that tactical foul when he had another defender running alongside the attacker.
Don't think so. That would take some incredible foresight because the right color jersey would need to be in the right size for the right referee. Recent practice has been for the details of the final inscribed on the jerseys (UCL Final, Europa League, etc.). So I think you'll see it for the Final here, but only that match. Related observation... Sweden and Portugal don't put the flags on the jersey. I actually thought the script and format was standardized, but apparently not.
One of the universal soccer gestures - "It was all ball!" - others include the universal "it was a dive" signal.
Is Keller blind "He tripped himself...and got away with it." Clearly the Ukraine players knee knocks the Swedish players foot off balance and into his other leg. Seriously you even get instant replay.
I don't know why, but I'm partial to Cakir. He seems to gain confidence with every appearance. Really like his style and foul selection... and now he's seemed to have really developed his management skills. I'll probably eat my words at some point, but I think he's a real darkhorse candidate for the Final.
It makes sense to me that Collina knows what he's talking about. I'm starting to really like him as well. Although I really liked Busacca for awhile too.
Ballsy "get up" there when the Ukrainian player went down wanting a call. No complaints from anyone though. And Ibra doesn't get a call on the other side either. I tend to like this refereeing style.
Oh my, he got that all wrong. Should have hit the target. Why is the defender complaining about offside - he was clearly two-three yards on.
I was wondering the same thing. He didn't seem to be upset, so I assume it wasn't a John Terry type incident.