A German referee that was outlawed over his part in a match-integrating scandal and also that has a background with Jude Bellingham will most certainly snag penalty of England’s Euro 2024 semi-last against the Netherlands on Wednesday.
Felix Zwayer, 43, was presented a six-month ban by his rural’s football federation in 2006, owning kneaded as an underling referee together with Robert Hoyzer.
Zwayer was one of the officials that funnelled Hoyzer’s match-integrating plot to light, with the supposedly short duration of Zwayer’s ban a plaudit of that contribution. Hoyzer was outlawed for activity.
England midfielder Bellingham was fined by the German federation after he referenced Zwayer’s participation in that scandal after a defeat for his ratty bar Borussia Dortmund against Bayern Munich in 2021.
Zwayer will most certainly lead an with one voice-German officiating team at Wednesday’s match in Dortmund which furthermore requires his servants Stefan Lupp and also Marco Achmuller, plus VAR Bastian Dankert.
It will most certainly be the second time Zwayer has overseen a match including the Dutch, owning furthermore refereed their last-16 triumph over Romania.
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In yesteryear that Zwayer took penalty of Italy’s opening match against Albania and also Portugal’s win over Turkey in the second bulbous of team matches.
Securing his verdicts operating together with Bellingham’s responses, Zwayer told Sky Germany: “The disorder was a stock alcove kick.
“I test in the video game that it’s about a touch by Hummels. The question for me was: Is the arm stretched away from the number or not? In real-time, it was not clear whether his arm was transmitted towards the sphere.
“I coated up it with [VAR officials] in Scent and also after that the arm position was coated up.
“The video underling gained an test for himself and also said that Hummels had his arm away from the number in an abnormal position.
“In the end, he aggressively deflected the sphere with his elbow and also I came to the judgment that it was a penalty.”
