Yesterday we already informed MD that Saturday’s match against each other will be refereed by another French referee. Norway e England. In this case it is Clement Turpinmost valued at European and global level. It was not for nothing that he was the best European referee of the 2021-2022 season when he whistled the final of the fourteenth Champions League of the white team, which took place on May 28, 2022 in San Dennis between Real Madrid and Liverpool. The year before, he whistled for the Europa League final. England’s fourth World Cup match and second since officiating their 4-2 group stage win over Croatia. The eighth match for the English with a balance of five wins, one draw and two losses. He has never whistled for Norway at this World Cup. Their only precedent dates back to 2021, when they lost to the Netherlands in Qatar World Cup qualifying.
But the most amazing thing became known just a few hours ago, when FIFA officially announced the remaining team members who would be escorting Clement Turpin out of the VOR room. And his compatriot is responsible for this as a VAR referee Jerome Brizard. A surprising appointment since he was the one who acted in this role in the controversial Argentina-Egypt match, along with Frenchman and field referee Francois Letexier. It was he who warned the field referee in the second disallowed goal against Egypt and did not do the same in the game, which marked the score 3:2 in favor of the Albiceleste team. Pierluigi Collina, FIFA’s director of refereeing, has already made it clear that they were correct in both decisions.
Carlos del Cerro Grande is an alternative ABAR.
We already said last Thursday that Jerome Brisard was not among the VAR referees who returned to their countries of origin in the first FIFA cut and from where the six referees who performed these functions left. Moreover, FIFA awarded him this title in another match between European teams in the quarterfinals. The complaint from the Egyptian federation, where they asked that neither Letexier nor Brissard be whistled anymore, served as an example more than anything else.
A meeting where Alejandro Hernandez from the Canary Islands will be the fourth official. In his fifth World Cup match and fourth performing these functions from the touchline. and where he will be accompanied as the fifth referee by his assistant, as well as the Spaniard José Enrique Naranjo. But in this refereeing team there will be another Spaniard, Carlos del Cerro Grande, appointed to replace ABAR.