French referee François Letexier was picked by UEFA to deal with the European Championship ultimate between Spain and England.
At 35, he is one of many youngest referees to take cost of a serious ultimate. The sport is on July 14 on the Olympiastadion in Berlin.
The referees for the previous three males’s Euros finals have been 48, 41 and 41 on the time.
Letexier has refereed three video games at Euro 2024 together with Spain’s 4-1 win over Georgia within the spherical of 16.
In these video games, he didn’t award a penalty kick and didn’t ship off any participant. He confirmed simply 10 yellow playing cards, together with one for Serbia ahead Aleksandar Mitrovic, who was judged to have dived within the penalty space in a 0-0 draw in opposition to Denmark.
There was no video assessment controversy in any of Letexier’s video games, together with the 2-2 draw between Albania and Croatia.
The VAR specialist for the ultimate can also be French, Jérôme Brisard.
Letexier not often reveals purple playing cards, with only one within the 9 video games he dealt with within the Champions League or Europa League final season from the group stage onward. That was to Bayern Munich’s French defender Dayot Upamecano.
His earlier highest profile video games for UEFA this season embrace Actual Madrid and Manchester Metropolis drawing 3-3 within the Champions League quarterfinals, Bayer Leverkusen profitable at Roma 2-0 within the Europa League semifinals, and the season-opening Tremendous Cup final August between Man Metropolis and Sevilla.
Letexier joined the FIFA checklist of referees for worldwide video games seven years in the past.
The fourth official for the ultimate might be Szymon Marciniak of Poland, the referee on the 2022 World Cup ultimate and 2023 Champions League ultimate who had a controversial season.
Marciniak and his match officers staff made consequential stoppage-time selections in Champions League video games between Bayern and Actual Madrid within the semifinals and Paris Saint-Germain and Newcastle within the group stage.
