Marciniak, who directed the final of the last World Cup, is a guaranteed referee
The referee who will officiate the second leg of the Champions League semi-final between Manchester City and Real Madrid at the Eitihad Stadium has already been announced. This is Szymon Marciniak. The Polish referee will announce the second leg of the semifinals of the Champions between City and Real Madrid. This has been officially announced by UEFA.
marciniak will be the head referee of the duel between English and Spanish. In addition, will be accompanied in the bands by his compatriots Pawel Sokolnicki and Tomasz Listkiewic; the fourth official will be the Romanian Istvan Kovacs and those in charge of the VAR will also be Poles Tomasz Kwiatkowski and Bartosz Frankowski.
Who is Szymon Marciniak, the referee who will whistle Manchester City vs Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League 22-23
Marcaniak will attend a meeting of the RealMadrid at champions. The last game in which he refereed the meringues was against Chelsea at the Bernabéu, in a match that ended in Madrid’s defeat (2–3) but helped the merengue team qualify for the next round. Apart from the Champions, Marciniak He also led Real Madrid-Atlético de Madrid in the final of the European Super Cup (2-4), played in Tallinn, in the 2018/19 season. As a curious fact, it should be noted that Real Madrid has won the Champions League title in the last three editions that the Polish referee has crossed his path.
Marciniak’s trajectory
Marciniak was appointed as a FIFA referee in 2011 to referee the qualifying round of the 2014 World Cup. He is a referee with extensive experience in the international concert as he officiated matches at Euro 2016, at the 2018 World Cup and at the 2022 World Cup, directing up to three games of that match. In fact, the Pole was the referee of the World Cup final between Argentina and France in Qatar, resulting in a victory for the South Americans.
Source: Goal