UEFA picks two video review referees at center of controversy for Euro 2024 duty
Nottingham Forest's Chris Wood and Nottingham Forest's Morgan Gibbs-White, left, show dejection during the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Nottingham Forest at Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, Sunday April 21, 2024. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Peter Byrne]
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — The match official accused of bias by English Premier League club Nottingham Forest got UEFA support by being selected for the European Championship as a video review expert in an overall list which included no women. Forest’s inflammatory social media post targeting Stuart Attwell has been widely criticized across English soccer. Attwell is among 20 VAR specialists chosen by UEFA to work at the 51-game Euro 2024 in Germany that starts June 14. They include Tomasz Kwiatkowski who UEFA removed from a Champions League game because of his work at a previous match. UEFA did not include any women among the referees, assistants, video review specialists and fourth officials in their Euro 2024 team that will be based in Frankfurt.
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Referee Felix Zwayer shows a yellow card to Benfica's Antonio Silva during the Europa League quarter final second leg soccer match between Olympique de Marseille and SL Benfica at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, south of France, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
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