International football assistant referee Ali Mirzabigi, in an interview with the Tasnim news agency’s sports reporter, said about Poland’s Szymon Marciniak’s refereeing in the Qatar 2022 World Cup final match: the referee and assistant referees of this game are all three from Poland. Marciniak, the referee in the middle of this game, is 41 years old, and in his youth, he played amateur football in Poland’s Wislaplak team. According to the discussion between him and the referee at the end of the game, he is expelled from the field and the referee of this game tells him “If you think refereeing is an easy job, go and continue refereeing”. He also takes this advice seriously and starts the arbitration work.
He pointed out: this referee will enter the FIFA list in 2011 and will be among the Polish international referees. He is a very experienced referee, and one of his important judgments is the refereeing of the match between Liverpool and Villarreal in the last season of the European Champions League. As the referee of the final, the FIFA website conducts an interview with Marciniak, who discusses some interesting points. First, he states that for the past year and a half, he has had a type of heart disease that makes the heart beat more than 100 beats per minute. He announced that he had planned to say goodbye to refereeing due to this disease, but he will return to refereeing after treatment and will be invited to the 2021 Arab Cup in Qatar and will be included in the final list of the World Cup.
Mirzabigi reminded: this referee has judged the match between France and Denmark in the group round and the match between Argentina and Australia in the elimination round. This referee rarely uses the red card, but he has shown that he does not hesitate to show the yellow card. Another point is that Thomas Litskovich, the assistant referee of this game, is the son of Mikhail Litskovich, who attended the 1990 Italian Cup and the final between West Germany and Argentina as an assistant referee. Now, after 32 years, his son is refereeing the final of the World Cup.
According to Tasnim, the final match of the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be held at 18:30 tomorrow (Sunday) between the national teams of Argentina and Farsana.