Schumacher's famous outing on Battiston during France-RFA 1982. -
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Former Dutch football referee Charles Corver, who officiated in the controversial semi-final of the 1982 World Cup France-RFA, has died at the age of 84, announced the Royal Netherlands Football Federation (KNVB) on Wednesday .
"Mr. Corver died Tuesday evening from his illness," the KNVB announced.
"I just haven't seen her"
Considered one of the best Dutch referees in history, he refereed at two World Cups, in 1978 and then in 1982. It was during the 1982 World Cup in Seville that he refereed the semi-final won by the FRG on penalties (3-3 after extra time), during which he did not sanction a violent charge by German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher on the Frenchman Patrick Battiston, who started on goal.
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The Frenchman, having lost three teeth and suffering from a vertebra damaged in the impact, was forced out, Schumacher regaining his place in German goals.
"I just didn't see it," until I watched the video two days later, Mr Corver told Dutch football magazine Voetbal International in an interview six years ago. years.
"FIFA never used it against me and never let me down," he added.
In 2000, the same magazine, famous in the Netherlands, had crowned him as "Arbitrator of the century" for his work.
He was also knighted in his country in 2006.
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