EURO 2024: THE REFEREE OF THE LAST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL FOR FRANCE-SPAIN

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Slovenian Slavko Vincic will referee the Euro 2024 semi-final between Spain and France on Tuesday in Munich. A good memory for the Spanish. He officiated the clash won by La Roja against Italy but also the Champions League final won by Real Madrid against Dortmund.

We know the referee for France-Spain. It is the Slovenian Slavko Vincic. Aged 44, the official will be tasked with officiating the Euro 2024 semi-final on Tuesday evening in Munich. It will be a reunion for the Roja since Slavko Vinci was also the whistler for the Spain-Italy clash (1-0) in the group stage. In Germany, he also officiated during the Hungary-Switzerland match (1-3). He did not show a red card during these two matches. Slavko Vincic also brings back good memories for the Spanish internationals of Real Madrid. He was the one who officiated the Champions League final won by the Madrid club against Borussia Dortmund (2-0) on June 1 at Wembley.

A record of two wins and a draw with the Blues

And what about the Blues? The Slovenian has refereed the French team three times, with two wins against Armenia in November 2015 and Albania in September 2019 and a draw against Ukraine in September 2021. He has not escaped criticism and controversy, such as during a Champions League match between Inter Milan and Barça (1-0) in November 2022. After a handball by Denzel Dumfries that was not sanctioned, Thierry Henry got angry with him : “He was wrong, bye! There’s nothing to explain. He made a mistake. It happens. It happened to me, it happens to a lot of people. He was wrong. The guy in the truck didn’t call the referee. I don’t know how much experience he has, but even my son could have seen that there was a handball. He would have seen it. He saw it, he even sent me a message to tell me: ‘There is hand’. You have 20 billion cameras and you can’t see it? Please! It happens but he was wrong.”