Markus Merk

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Markus Merk
Markus Merk
Personal
Surname Markus Merk
birthday March 15, 1962
place of birth Kaiserslautern , Germany
job Dentist
Club information
society 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Games by division
Years Division Games
1985-2008
1988-2008
1992-2007
1992-2008 		2. Bundesliga
Bundesliga
international matches
European Cup 		78
339
50
78
Finals

Markus Merk (born March 15, 1962 in Kaiserslautern ) is a former German football referee . From 1988 to 2008 he directed games in the Bundesliga, and between 1992 and 2007 he also served as a FIFA referee. He was voted “World Referee of the Year” three times.

Life

Markus Merk, son of the honorary member of 1. FC Kaiserslautern Rudi Merk, was an altar boy for ten years in his youth . He lives in Weisenheim am Berg near Bad Dürkheim, is married and has a son. He is a member of 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Merk studied dentistry at the University of Cologne and has been a doctor of dentistry since 1990 . Until the beginning of 2005 he ran a dental practice in Kaiserslautern. After they were sold, he held motivational seminars in Germany. Since August 14, 2010, he has hosted the football program Maraton on the Turkish television broadcaster Lig TV together with Sansal Büyüka, Tümer Metin and Hakan Şükür . He worked as an expert for the pay TV broadcaster Sky for eight years until the 2018/19 season. He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

In order to keep himself physically fit, Merk dedicates herself to the triathlon .

On December 1, 2019, he was elected deputy chairman and spokesman for the supervisory board of 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Important missions

Games

Merk led his first Bundesliga game on August 20, 1988, when VfL Bochum played against Bayer 05 Uerdingen (1-1). In 1993 he whistled the DFB Cup final between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and the amateurs from Hertha BSC .

On December 3, 1997, Merk headed the DFB Cup game Alemannia Aachen against SV Waldhof Mannheim . After Mario Krohm's penalty converted in the margin, he did not recognize a goal for Alemannia, but continued the game with a referee's ball because a second ball had flown onto the field during the penalty execution from the Mannheim block. Alemannia lost the game on penalties, their protest against the score of the game was dismissed.

“As a footballer, it was just as unbelievable for me as it was for the Aachen spectators in the stands, and of course I don't think that's fair for the club concerned, in this case Alemannia. But for me it was and is the right decision, even if it leaves a very bitter aftertaste. "

- Merk

His best-known game in the Bundesliga was the game of Hamburger SV against FC Bayern Munich on the last matchday of the 2000/01 season , at Merk in stoppage time after a back pass from Hamburg's Tomáš Ujfaluši to goalkeeper Mathias Schober on an indirect free kick for Bayern decided. Patrik Andersson converted to 1-1 final score, and Bayern became German champions instead of FC Schalke 04 .

Major international assignments have included in 1997 the final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Barcelona (0: 1), the opening match of Euro 2000 between Belgium and Sweden (2: 1), 2002, his first World Cup match between Japan and Russia, the 2003 Champions League final between Juventus Turin and AC Milan and the 2004 European Championship final between hosts Portugal and Greece (0: 1) on July 4, 2004 . In total, Merk led six European Championship finals, only Anders Frisk came on more stakes.

Merk led the semifinals of the Confederations Cup 2003 between Cameroon and Colombia, during which the Cameroonian player Marc-Vivien Foé collapsed without any outside influence and died a little later in hospital of heart failure.

On November 17, 2007, Merk led his 50th and last international match with the game between Norway and Turkey (1: 2). His Bundesliga career ended in the 2007/08 season after 339 appearances. At the end of the game he whistled the game of FC Bayern Munich against Hertha BSC (4: 1) on matchday 34 . He ended his career with Oliver Kahn's farewell game on September 2, 2008. Bayern Munich played 1-1 against the DFB national team.

Tournaments

In 1992 Merk was active as a referee at the Olympic Games in Barcelona , but was only used in two games. He put two players from each team off the field in the game between Spain and Colombia. In 2000 he was a referee at the European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands , where he headed three games, including the opening game and the semifinals between Italy and the Netherlands. In 2002 he played two games at the World Cup in Korea and Japan .

At the 2004 European Championships in Portugal , Merk was the referee of the two preliminary round games between France and England (2: 1) and between Denmark and Sweden (2: 2). He was also entrusted by UEFA with the management of the final of the European Championship between Portugal and Greece (0-1). Merk was the second German referee after Rudi Glöckner's World Cup final in 1970 to lead the final of a World or European Championship. As assistants stood him while Jan-Hendrik Salver and Christian Schräer aside.

In 2006 he led the games of the Netherlands against Serbia-Montenegro (1-0), Brazil against Australia (2-0) and Ghana against the USA (2-1) at the World Cup in Germany .

honors and awards

Others

Merk has been volunteering in India for leisure and vacation since 1991 . In 1999 his commitment resulted in a comprehensive aid project in and around the city of Sogospatty in southern India, which he brought to life with the establishment of the India Aid Association in Kaiserslautern . The project builds and looks after schools, orphanages and other social institutions.

Markus Merk's statement can be read on an internationally approved tournament football from fair production specially manufactured for the 2006 World Cup :

“The sign of the cross is my very personal kick-off; Expression of my faith that gives me strength. "

The ball was seen in 2014 in a modern Christmas crib in the Jesuit Church in Heidelberg .

Fonts

  • Markus Merk and Oliver Trust: BeWEGEnd - Merk & More . Bombus-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-936261-38-7 .
  • Markus Merk: Investigations into the change in shape of cold- and hot-curing denture acrylic after treatment in an ultrasonic bath . University dissertation, Cologne 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudi Merk died. On: der-betze-brennt.de. January 17, 2008.
  2. ↑ Weisenheim am Berg: Ex-star referee Markus Merk is drawn to the Weinstrasse. In: The Rhine Palatinate . April 15, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Note at dnb.de , accessed on January 4, 2020
  4. ↑ Markus Merk LİG TV'DE. August 8, 2010, accessed August 15, 2010 .
  5. ^ Peter Dörr: Markus Merk - New TV career in Turkey. In: bild.de. August 21, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
  6. ^ Maraton.
  7. ↑ dwdl.de from June 12, 2019 , accessed on January 4, 2020
  8. ↑ Rainer Keßler and Dr. Markus Merk form the chair of the FCK supervisory board. In: fck.de. December 2, 2019, accessed on December 2, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Football Bundesliga: Doubts about the champions goal. On: Spiegel.de. May 20, 2001.
  10. ↑ Spain - Colombia 4: 0 (3: 0)
  11. ↑ World premiere for the world championship. The first Christian football comes from the St. Benno publishing house. At: cms.st-benno.de. 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Merk, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football referee
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Germany