German Tobias Setler appears in the “ADNOC League”
The referee of the match between Sharjah and Al Wahda.. the owner of a strong personality and a specialist in great confrontations
Tobias Setler.
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The referee for the match between Sharjah and Al Wahda teams, which will be held tomorrow in the ninth round of the ADNOC Professional League, German international Tobias Settler (40 years), is distinguished by his strong personality, and he has always been known for his leadership of big matches and derbies, whether in the European qualifiers for the World Cup, the German League or the European Champions League Among them is the match between Barcelona and its Italian counterpart Juventus in the sixth and final round of the UEFA Champions League for the 2020-2021 season.
Last September, Tobias led the match between Denmark and Israel, which ended with Denmark winning five clean goals in the European qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup.
Setler started his arbitration career in 2002 and won the international refereeing badge in 2014.
This is the second appearance of a foreign whistle in the UAE league, after the presence of a Turkish arbitration team led by the Turkish international referee Cüneyt Shakir, who led the Al-Ahly and Al-Jazira youth match in the seventh round of the professional league, and it is the first time that the foreign whistle appears in the UAE League after 36 years of absence.
The cost of a foreign referee for a match in the ADNOC Professional League, according to the UAE Football Association, is 170,000 dirhams.
And the Football Association decided last September to use the foreign whistle, to participate in the management of matches in the professional league.
Sharjah is in sixth place in the ADNOC Professional League standings after eight rounds, with 13 points (won in four matches, tied in one match and lost three matches), while Al Wahda occupies fourth place with 14 points (won in three matches, tied in five and lost three matches). loses so far).
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