Manuel Graefe

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Manuel Graefe
Manuel Graefe
Personal
Surname Manuel Graefe
birthday September 21, 1973
place of birth West Berlin , Germany
job Sports scientist
Club information
society Hertha Zehlendorf
Games by division
Years Division Games
since 2001
since 2004
2007–2018
2007–2018 		2. Bundesliga
Bundesliga
international matches
European Cup 		133
268
15
34
Tournaments
Finals
Awards
* DFB referee of the year 2011
As of May 25, 2020

Manuel Grafe (born September 21, 1973 in West Berlin ) is a German football referee .

Life

At the age of 17 he passed his referee examination in Berlin. At that time he was still playing in the youth team at Rapide Wedding . Among his team-mates was the future Croatian international Robert Kovač .

Gräfe has been a DFB referee for the Hertha Zehlendorf club since 1999 . He has been in charge of games in the second division since 2001 and in the Bundesliga since 2004 . From 2007 to 2018 he also whistled at FIFA level. He had his first Bundesliga appearance on September 12, 2004 when Hannover 96 played against SC Freiburg . His first international game was the encounter between RC Lens and Chornomorez Odessa on July 28, 2007.

Gräfe was one of the Berlin referees around Lutz Michael Fröhlich , who started the soccer betting scandal in 2005 with their ad with the DFB . Since 2000 he has headed one of 13 Berlin referee groups, the Zehlendorf / Steglitz referee training group. In the 2010/11 season, Manuel Gräfe was named Referee of the Year by the DFB . On June 1, 2013, he headed the DFB Cup final between FC Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

In July 2017, 11Freunde magazine named Gräfe the best referee of the 2016/17 Bundesliga season. In August 2017 he attracted media attention when he accused his superiors Herbert Fandel and Hellmut Krug of muddling and lack of transparency in the selection of referees. As a result, the German Football Association threatened Gräfe with his premature retirement if he spoke again in the press without consulting the association's management. In addition, Gräfe is no longer used as a video referee .

In September 2018, the German Football Association announced that Manuel Gräfe would retire as a FIFA referee in 2019 due to age . Sascha Stegemann moved up for him . Manuel Gräfe directed international matches for eleven years, including 26 Europa League and 6 UEFA Champions League matches.

Gräfe, a sports scientist by profession , lives in Berlin .

Web links

Commons : Manuel Gräfe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11Freunde championship celebration 2017: Best referee | Manuel Graefe . 11Freunde , June 25, 2017, accessed August 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Graefes open reproach . Sueddeutsche , August 21, 2017, accessed October 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ Simon Pausch: Muzzle from the DFB - Babak Rafati: "Manuel Gräfe is a hero" . In: THE WORLD . November 4, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed May 25, 2020]).
  4. ↑ FIFA referee of the DFB: Stegemann moves up, Gräfe leaves. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Count, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football referee
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin