Lucien Bouchardeau
| Lucien Bouchardeau | ||
| Personal | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Lucien Bouchardeau | |
| birthday | December 18, 1961 | |
| place of birth | Niamey , Niger | |
| date of death | 20th February 2018 | |
| Place of death | Niamey, Niger | |
| Tournaments | ||
Lucien Bouchardeau (born December 18, 1961 in Niamey ; † February 20, 2018 there ) was a Nigerien football referee .
Career
Lucien Bouchardeau began his career as a football referee in 1987. He was supposed to direct around 200 games, including 88 international matches from 1993 to 1998.
He was used at the 1996 African Cup of Nations in South Africa and at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , followed by refereeing at the 1997 Mediterranean Games in Italy , the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia and the football African Championship 1998 in Burkina Faso .
During the 1998 World Cup in France , Bouchardeau decided to score a late penalty in the match between Italy and Chile after a questionable handball by Chilean Ronald Fuentes - a controversial decision that allowed the Italians to end the game in a draw. Bouchardeau then gave an interview to the sports newspaper Tuttosport in which he expressed his fear of the end of his referee career. The FIFA rules, however, forbade referees such interviews, whereupon he was suspended from the World Cup.
Bouchardeau left the Nigerien football association Fédération Nigérienne de Football in 2001 to protest against the fact that it had not arranged a referee from Niger for either the 2002 African Cup or the 2002 World Cup . In 2002, FIFA President handed Sepp Blatter Bouchardeau 25,000 dollars from. According to Blatter, this was done in exchange for confidential information about corruption in African football and for humanitarian reasons. FIFA General Secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen had previously alleged that the payment was made in order to obtain damaging information to the CAF Vice-President and Blatter opponent Farah Addo.
Most recently, seriously ill, Lucien Bouchardeau needed medical treatment abroad for which he could not raise the funds himself. He turned to President Mahamadou Issoufou , who released the required amount of 10 million CFA francs (at that time a little more than 15,000 euros). Before Bouchardeau could leave the country, he died in his home country in 2018.
Web links
- Lucien Bouchardeau in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Niger: L'arbitre international Lucien Bouchardeau est décédé. In: Niger Diaspora. February 21, 2018, accessed February 22, 2018 (French).
- ^ Football: L'ancien arbitre international Lucien Bouchardeau n'est plus. In: Le Sahel . February 21, 2017, accessed February 22, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Lucien Bouchardeau in the database of weltfussball.de. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- ↑ Referee fears end of career. In: The Indian Express. June 19, 1998, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on February 22, 2018 (English).
- ↑ FIFA: Blatter reconoce haber pagado a árbitro Bouchardeau. In: Emol. May 14, 2002, Retrieved February 22, 2018 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouchardeau, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerien football referee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niamey |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th February 2018 |
| Place of death | Niamey |