For Felix Brych Babak Rafati Can not Understand

Former Bundesliga referee Babak Rafati strongly criticized the end for Felix Brych as referee at the World Cup in Russia

"It's a shame and incomprehensible, he may have made a single mistake, the penalty not given for Serbia, it's a mistake, nothing more, nothing less, "said the 48-year-old at 19459005 SPORT1 . Despite some mistakes, other top athletes have also been reinstated. The fact that the World Cup continues after the knockout stages without our two German teams ( Brych and the National Team, Red ) is very good

A match instead of the final for Brych

Referee of the World Cup Brych ended the World Cup after a single match ( Serbia vs. Switzerland, d.Red. ) in the preliminary round. The experienced referee of the European Football Union (UEFA) after the retirement of the German national team in the group stage even acted as a candidate for the World Cup final. Munich was apparently a wrong decision in the group stage at Doom

After the very explosive match between Switzerland and Serbia (2: 1), there had been a lot of bustle on the referee German, because the referee denied a penalty kick. Obviously, the painful and controversial decision of Brych was considered by FIFA to be too serious.

"The World Cup is a bitter disappointment for me and my team, but life goes on and we will come back," said Brych. Wednesday night in a statement from the German Football Association (DFB) quoted.

After he had no game management in the second round, he was also not considered by FIFA for the next matches. Four years ago at the World Cup in Brazil Brych had come at least twice to use it, even there he had not felt the necessary confidence of the referees of the FIFA World Federation. In Russia too, Brych and his badistants waited in vain for a green light in the round of 16.

Rafati: "A very explosive duel"

Brych was designated one of the most ungrateful games Rafati also considers an honor for the German referee, "It's a very duel explosive for an umpire, because you are an arbiter to meet those challenges with a political track record, which you can even see as a prize. "

Is the Brych-Aus recognition of the loss of importance of German arbitration in recent years?

"You can not paint everything in black now," Rafati said. "In 2017, we had the two world referees of the year, Felix Brych and Bibiana Steinhaus Let's wait, the DFB leaders will badyze the backstage and draw the right conclusions."

Rafati himself knows the downsides of arbitration. In 2011, the former Bundesliga referee tried to commit suicide. His suicide attempt, he says, was the result of systematic harbadment by the referee.