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A match that changed the face of football
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Bruno Derrien may have retired as a referee ten years before the infamous comeback, but he knows, as a football player, what place this match holds in the history of the game. And of refereeing too, no doubt . “The name of the evening referee, Deniz Aytekin, will remain forever linked to this match,” he assures, implacably. And he paid the consequences at the international level. »
Since March 8, 2017, the German, promised to the potential succession of Felix Brych at the top of the hierarchy of officials of his country, has no longer tasted a Champions League final phase match. “In the first leg, it was 4-0 for PSG, so it must have been a quiet match,” comments Bruno Derrien, adjusting thick dark glasses, invited to watch the match in the Parisian premises. Hence, undoubtedly, the choice of Deniz Aytekin for a life-size test on a very large poster, and of his team, composed in particular of a surface referee, Benjamin Brand, who was not an international referee (and who still isn't).
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