Ural Greenfeld Is at the peak of his career. The international referee, who refereed Bayern Munich’s fourth Champions League game of the season 1: 4 over Lazio in the quarter-finals at the Olimpico, held a press conference in which he spoke about his personal experience and aspirations to continue in light of the great success in the international arena.
Is he complete with all the decisions he has made: “We refereed with a team that is mostly Israeli, we refereed more than four games including qualifiers in the Champions League, to say that I am complete with all the decisions is a bit difficult, the surgery I do for this game is like open heart surgery. Of course usually what interests the whole public are the bigger decisions, to my delight we are in the VAR era so the critical matters are examined by them. In the last game, Roy Reinschreiber was sitting in VAR and as soon as we process things, it helps me. “
His personal experience of seeing all these stars next to him: “If we judged these games, we would not have come out of nowhere. We need to be ready. I judged Bayern a few months ago, we come ready, you can prepare according to each player and of course one tactical preparation or another. We also refereed the eighth final of the Europa League two years ago, but there is no doubt that the Champions League is a bit different and the spirit we get from both the public and our colleagues makes us feel missionary.
“Super players? At the end of the day these are human beings who are uncompromisingly professional people, and so the actors also expect from us. I appreciate everyone I met there and when you treat them that way, they give back. The assessment is endless, but at the end of the day one should manage the game in the best way without referring to one player or another. One of the things we prepared for before the game was the passing attacks, it requires a very large speed from me, it is manifested in a number of cases. After the game, we told ourselves that it was worth every minute we invested in preparation. “
Judge in euros: “This is a derivative of the goals we have, for me, the team, the association and the judges’ union. The desire is for everyone to be there. This is the overarching goal and if I did not think we could get there, I would not try at all. I think we work right, it’s something we want and through hard work I also believe it can happen.
The differences between Champions League and Premier League games: “There are factual gaps, the referees run much more in the Champions League than in any league. As for the last game, the gaps are huge in terms of speeds, but again, this is something that is acceptable and understandable. The playing time is longer, I just want more and more. That is the great challenge. “
Yellow to Joshua Kimich: “There were two yellow cards in this game for protests, the first yellow was for a player who performed a very, very rude cancellation action which is something that is not typically typical of a first yellow card, but it is something that was blatant. If I do not stop a game and explain that it does not work and there are a lot of young guys at home who watch the game, it hurts the image of the game. Kimich ran from a very great distance to me in a sprint while protesting the decision. “In this game there was a critic like in every game, a very esteemed man, he personally very much liked the management of the yellow cards because it has to convey some message to the players, because as soon as they see laxity or softness it gives them legitimacy for a wild game.”
Does he think he should have had a harder hand in the game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa after I think Maccabi Tel Aviv against Maccabi Haifa after watching the derby events: “Unlike the Haifa derby, this game was very sporty, we will take out the point incident that happened in the 44th minute that it started and ended in something like a minute, the players involved received yellow cards, it is not similar to what happened in the Haifa derby.”
World Cup: “There are a number of goals, this is not just a goal of mine, but of everyone, the association, the judges’ union, I am very happy about it. “There is always a super goal, but we also have close goals and when we achieve them we can dream far away.”