The 41-year-old Pole was appointed by FIFA to bring justice in the decisive game. He already directed both selected in the contest.
Argentina will be measured France in the Grand Final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup to be held this Sunday at Lusail Stadium. A duel that becomes attractive because both teams know what it’s like to celebrate a title in a planetary event. La Albiceleste celebrated in the 1978 and Mexico 1986 editions, while the French they won their first trophy as hosts in France 1998 and came to this edition as new champions after being crowned in Russia 2018.
And for this compromise decisiveFIFA designated the Pole Szymon Marciniak so that he gives righteousness to be into his third appearance in the game. And their two antecedents happened to be the two finalists: their first encounter was Les Bleus’ 2-1 victory over Denmark in Group D, while their second appearance was in Albiceleste’s 2-1 against Australia in the round of 16.
The shortlist is completed by Paweł Sokolnicki and Tomasz Listkiewicz. The latter’s father, Michał Listkiewicz, served as linesman in the game that could mean the two-way championship for those then led by Carlos Salvador Bilardo in the decisive match against Germany in Italy 1990 that ended 1-0 in favor of the Germans thanks to a penalty from Andreas Brehme. The VAR will be led by Tomasz Kwiatkowski, assisted by Venezuelan Juan Soto. The Offside VAR will meanwhile be responsible for the American Kyle Atkins servingor as reserve referee for Mateu Lahoz at the crossroads against the Netherlands in the quarterfinals.
Who is it Szymon Marciniak?
The born in The 41-year-old Płock has had a long career since its foundation in 2002 after starting his idyll with football as a player who pleaded in the ranks from Wisla Plock. Of course, he was only appointed to FIFA in 2011. He made his debut in the Champions League in 2014, before leading a Europa League quarter-final in 2015 and being selected to referee the final between Sweden and Portugal. of the European Under-21 Championship.
In addition, he became known for refereeing two of Barcelona’s heaviest defeats in recent Champions League history. He was in the 4-0 fall of the culés in Paris in 2017 (round of 16), the same that forced the epic 6-1 comeback at the Camp Nou against PSG, and also whistled Juventus’ 3-0 triumph over Barça for the quarterfinals of that same edition. Likewise, he was in England’s victory over Spain in the UEFA Nations League where he had an incident with Sergio Busquets, who threw a ball at him. after Sergio Ramos scored the final 2-3.
This year He was present in five Champions League matches. In it he stood out for the high number of fouls per game, a total of 23. He participated in the Eurocup, Cup FIFA Arabic, Europa League, UEFA Conference League, the 2017 U-20 World Cup and the 2018 World Cup in which he forced a draw between Argentina and Iceland (1-1) and Germany’s victory over Sweden (2-1), both for the group stage. His overall balance is 550 matches, of which he showed 2,213 yellow cards and 67 direct red cards. He conceded 244 penalties.
Marciniak’s background with Argentina:
It won’t be the first time that the paths of the referee and the albicelestes have crossed at a World Cup event. The first time took place in 2018, at the debut against Iceland (1-1). He decided to charge him a penalty in favor of Argentina that Lionel Messi could not exchange for a goal, and the aforementioned encounter with the Socceroos on December 3, which ended favorable for the Argentines with 2-1 thanks to the star conquests of Rosario and Julián Álvarez. The discount was the work of Enzo Fernández on his own doorstep.
Marciniak’s background with France:
In addition to whistling the 2-1 victory over Denmark in the group stage, the Pole holds two other records with the French squad. The first took place in 2014, in an international friendly against Portugal that ended in a 2-1 victory for Les Bleus despite awarding a penalty kick to the Portuguese team (which was scored by Ricardo Quaresma) and the second is more recent : In September 2020, he was in charge of delivering justice in Didier Deschamps’ team’s 1-0 victory over Sweden in the Nations League group stage, in a game in which he conceded a penalty in favor of France, which was missed by Antoine Griezman.
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