Milorad Mažić
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Mažić showing a yellow card at a Europa League round of 32 first leg match between Rubin Kazan and Olympiakos on 14 February 2012. | |||
| Born |
23 March 1973 Vrbas, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | |||
| Years | League | ||
| 2009– | SuperLiga (Serbia) | ||
| 2009, 2012 | Liga I (Romania) | ||
| 2014 | Stars League (Qatar) | ||
| 2015 | Premier League (Egypt) | ||
| International | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 2009– | FIFA listed | Referee | |
Milorad Mažić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Мажић; born 23 March 1973) is an international association football referee from Serbia. He became a FIFA referee in 2009. Mažić officiated numerous matches in the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League, as well as 2016 UEFA Super Cup Final. He was selected as a referee for the 2014 FIFA World Cup[1] and the UEFA Euro 2016.[2]
Career
During summer 2009 Mažić was selected to referee SuperLiga matches for the upcoming 2009-10 season as the league expanded from 12 to 16 teams. Before commencing his duties in the Serbian league that fall, Mažić got his first experience in European club competition, refereeing the return leg of the Europa League first qualifying phase tie between the home team Llanelli and visiting Motherwell.
In total, Mažić refereed 12 league matches that season in Serbia's top flight. During the same season in October 2009 he refereed his first international match — a 2010 World Cup qualifier between Finland and Wales in Helsinki. The same season also saw him referee a Romanian Liga I match between FC Politehnica Timișoara and Dinamo București on 23 November 2009.
On 17 November 2012, Mažić refereed his first league Eternal derby between Red Star Belgrade and FK Partizan.[3]
In early April 2014, Mažić was selected as the referee of the Champions League quarter-final first leg match between PSG and Chelsea at Parc des Princes. A month later, he refereed a Europa League semi-final match, the return leg between Valencia and Sevilla at Mestalla.
Having refereed the round-of-16 return leg in March 2015 between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus, Mažić was awarded the Champions Leaguequarter-final first leg between Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid.[4] The match ended 0-0 and he handed out five yellow cards. After the match Suárez, who received one of the cards, said "The referee is very bad. They can't use a Serbian referee for these type of games".[5][6] This was taken by some as an ethnic slur.[7] Suárez later apologized, tweeting that he just meant "that games of this magnitude should be given to a referee from one of the big leagues."[5] Mažić later refereed the Europa League semi-final return leg in mid May, his third time being involved in a match at this stage of competition, between Dnipro and Napoli that was played in Kiev instead of Dnipropetrovsk due to the Ukrainian conflict.
In July 2015 Mažić got hired by the Egyptian FA to referee the country's biggest league derby between Cairo cross-town rivals Al Ahly and Zamalek. The match of the Egyptian Premier League was played on 22 July 2015 in a neutral venue in Alexandria without a crowd.[8][9]
2014 World Cup
Mažić refereed the Germany vs. Portugal group stage match in Salvador da Bahia. In the 11th minute of the contest, he awarded a penalty shot to Germany,[10][11] and later, in the 37th minute with Germany now up 2-0, Mažić showed red card to Portugal's Pepe.[12][13] In the next game Mažić refereed the Argentina vs. Iran group stage match in Belo Horizonte.[14]
References
- ↑ "Man Utd v Liverpool to be officiated by World Cup's 'worst referee'". 15 March 2016.
- ↑ "Mažić sudi na Evropskom prvenstvu u Francuskoj" [Mažić to officiate at the UEAFA Euro]. Večernje novosti. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ↑ Mažić sudi derbi;mondo.rs, 16 November 2012
- ↑ "Milorad Mazic to referee derby at Calderón". Marca. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- 1 2 Sharm, Rik (14 April 2015). "Atletico Madrid midfielder Mario Suarez says referee Milorad Mazic was 'very bad' in Champions League draw with Real Madrid". Daily Mail. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ↑ Conn, Tom (15 April 2015). "Mario Suarez: A Serbian referee shouldn't be in charge of these matches". InsideSpanishFootball.com. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ↑ Canning, Kieran (14 April 2015). "Suarez risks hot water over Serbian slur". Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ↑ "Mažić sudi veliki derbi Egipta". B92.net. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ↑ "RELIVE: Ahly v Zamalek (Egyptian Premier League)". AhramOnline. 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ↑ Kelly, Cathal (16 June 2014). "Germany embarrasses flailing Portugal with ease". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "Thoughts on the Referees: Day Five". 16 June 2014.
- ↑ "Pepe Red Card Hotter on Twitter Than Lionel Messi's Goal". Indo-Asian News Service. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "Pepe's red card: The world responds ...". ESPN FC. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ FIFA.com. "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ - Matches - Argentina-Iran - FIFA.com".