Europa League Final - Sevilla Vs Benfica

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Have to say I was rooting for Juventus-Valencia but drawventus are known European flops (reached 9 UCL finals, won 2 ) and Sevilla pulled off the miracle

McAgger wrote:If Sevilla win they will equal the highest number of UEFACup/Europa wins with 3. The record is held by Liverpool, Inter, and Juventus.

GTFI Benfica  I knew there was a reason I was cheering for you.

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The UEFA Referees Committee today announced the referee for the 2014 UEFA Europa League final between Sevilla FC and SL Benfica at Turin's Juventus Stadium next Wednesday at 20.45CET.

The match will be handled by 38-year-old German referee Felix Brych, a FIFA badge holder since 2007 with 50 matches in UEFA competition to his name. He was a fourth official for last season's UEFA Europa League showpiece in Amsterdam and has officiated at six UEFA Champions League games this term, including the quarter-final first leg between FC Barcelona and Club Atlético de Madrid.

A financial lawyer in his home city of Munich, Brych began refereeing in Germany's amateur leagues in 1999, stepping up to the 2. Bundesliga two years later and reaching the top flight in 2004. He was given his first assignments in UEFA club competition in 2007/08, and his group stage debut as a UEFA Champions League referee the following season. He oversaw two matches at the 2012 Olympic Games in London having taken charge of the Cypriot Cup final that May.

Brych will be assisted by his fellow countrymen Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp. The fourth official is Milorad Mažić from Serbia and the two additional assistant referees, Tobias Welz and Bastian Dankert, are both from Germany. A German reserve assistant referee – Thorsten Schiffner – completes the refereeing team lineup.

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2101952.html

VendettaRed07 wrote:aren't Benfica cursed or something? Like they sold a star player like 60 years ago and said theyll never win a european trophy without me! and they've lost every European final since? can't really remember

If true I'll go with Sevilla. Curses in sports are real.

Benfica aim to end their 'Bela Guttman curse' and win a European final for the first time in 52 years.

Former manager Guttman won two European Cups with the Portuguese giants but left the club in 1962 after a contract dispute, with a parting shot saying "not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European cup".