Euro 2024: Convicted match-fixer will referee England semi-final

Referee Felix Zwayer, who has served a six-month prohibition for lucifer fixing, has been selected to officiate England’s Euro 2024 semi-final against nan Netherlands.

The 43-year-old from Berlin will lead an all-German squad of officials connected Wednesday nighttime arsenic England return connected nan Netherlands successful Dortmund.

Dortmund is besides wherever he and England midfielder Jude Bellingham person history.

CONFIRMED: Felix Zwayer will referee nan semi-final betwixt Netherlands and England.

He served a six-month prohibition for a match-fixing incident successful Germany. pic.twitter.com/kMhKM3b5hd

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In December 2021 nan past 19-year-old midfielder was fined astir £34,000 by nan German FA pursuing his post-match comments astir Zwayer, who turned down Dortmund’s appeals for a punishment successful Der Klassiker earlier awarding 1 to Bayern Munich later successful nan game.

Bellingham told ViaPlay: “You springiness a referee that has match-fixed earlier nan biggest crippled successful Germany – what do you expect? You tin look astatine a batch of nan decisions successful nan game.”

The German FA’s sports tribunal recovered Bellingham blameworthy of unsportsmanlike conduct.

Bellingham was referring to Zwayer’s engagement successful a match-fixing ungraded successful 2005, 4 years earlier he was promoted to nan Bundesliga, which saw him service a six-month ban.

The charismatic took a two-month break from nan crippled aft nan contention pursuing nan Dortmund v Bayern game, which Munich won 3-2 courtesy of nan 77th infinitesimal spot-kick from Robert Lewandowski.

Zwayer has already refereed nan Netherlands successful this competition, taking nan whistle for their Round of 16 triumph complete Romania. He besides oversaw nan group shape games betwixt Italy and Albania and Portugal and Turkey.

He is simply a regular successful UEFA nine and world competitions and officiated nan 2023 Nations League Final betwixt Spain and Croatia.

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