Babak Rafati
Babak Rafati ( Persian بابک رفعتی; * May 28, 1970 in Hanover ) is a former German football referee .
Life
Rafati grew up as a child of Persian parents in Germany and Iran . He completed an apprenticeship as a banker in Hanover, where he lives today . Most recently, he worked as a branch manager at Sparkasse Hannover . From 1997, Babak Rafati, who whistled for Lower Saxony Döhren , was DFB referee. From 2000 he headed games of the second and from 2005 also the Bundesliga . He made his debut on August 6, 2005 in the game 1. FC Köln against 1. FSV Mainz 05 . Rafati led a total of 84 Bundesliga games and 102 second division games.
In 2008 he succeeded Markus Merk as one of the first German FIFA referees . Internationally, he led two international matches and six matches in European Cup competitions. In September 2011, the DFB announced that Rafati would no longer be on the list of FIFA referees alongside Peter Sippel from 2012. Her successors were Marco Fritz and Felix Zwayer . The DFB justified the step as a necessary age-related restructuring. Rafati had previously been voted the “worst Bundesliga referee” four times by the Bundesliga professionals in the biannual surveys conducted by the specialist magazine Kicker .
On November 19, 2011, the Bundesliga game scheduled for that day between 1. FC Köln and 1. FSV Mainz 05 was canceled after Rafati, who was supposed to lead the game, did not appear in the stadium on time. The cause was a suicide attempt; His assistants had found Rafati in his Cologne hotel and provided first aid before the emergency doctor arrived . As a trigger for his attempted suicide, he said depression himself . He therefore went into therapeutic treatment. On May 24, 2012, he announced his resignation as referee without further commitment.
He gives lectures on prevention strategies for burnout , bullying and depression as well as on the subject of pressure to perform. In addition, he works as a personal mental trainer.
More than three years after his last official game as football referee, Rafati led Aílton's farewell match on September 6, 2014 and a year later, on September 5, 2015, Dedê's farewell match in the Westfalenstadion in front of 81,359 spectators, a new European record for farewell matches was set up.
Rafati has been married since 2012.
Publications
- I don't give a damn about death! How football almost cost me my life . Kasel, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-466-37074-0 (paperback edition: Goldmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-15806-5 ).
report
- After the game on YouTube . Report by Angelika Lizius from the series "Lebenslinien" (Bayerischer Rundfunk 2015, 44 minutes)
Web links
- Personal homepage
- Usage statistics at weltfussball.de
- Ex-referee Babak Rafati: I was played badly
- Rena Beeg, Henning Feindt: Babak Rafati's wife Rouja about the worst time of her life. Still afraid that he will harm himself . In: bild.de. March 24, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Babak Rafati in brief. In: Weser courier . November 19, 2011, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- ^ Referees Zwayer and Fritz intended for FIFA list. In: Official Notices. No. 9/2011. DFB, September 30, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2016 .
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↑ Kicker sports magazine. No. 2/2010 of January 4, 2010, p. 9.
Kicker sports magazine. No. 2/2011 of January 3, 2011, p. 9. - ↑ according to the press release by DFB President Theo Zwanziger on November 19, 2011
- ↑ Assistants save Rafati's life. In: bundesliga.t-online.de. November 19, 2011, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Rafati: The statement in full. In: Kicker. November 25, 2011, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- ^ Referee Rafati resigns. In: sport1.de. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rafati, Babak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | بابک رفعتی (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German football referee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |