Olegário Benquerença

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Olegário Benquerença

Olegário Manuel Bartolo Benquerença (born October 18, 1969 in Batalha ) is a Portuguese football referee, he was nominated for the 2010 World Cup together with the assistants Bertino Miranda and José Cardinal as the first purely Portuguese referee team at a World Cup. So far, he has whistled 57 international games, pronounced 13 penalties , awarded 13 red cards and 288 yellow cards. He whistled his first game on August 23, 2001 in the UEFA Cup qualifying Rapid Bucharest against Atlantas Klaipėda .

He speaks Portuguese , English , French and Spanish . According to statistics, he gave the away teams an average of 2.47 yellow cards while the home teams received 1.67 yellow cards. The home teams received nine penalties, the away teams four. He whistled three qualifying games for the 2006 World Cup and four for the 2010 World Cup . He is also often used in the Portuguese Primeira Liga . On January 25, 2004, he was the referee in the SuperLiga game Vitória Guimarães - Benfica Lisbon , who had shown Miklós Fehér , who was substituted in the 60th minute, a yellow card for delaying the game just before the end of the game, a few seconds before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest.

After he whistled the semi-finals of the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League between Inter Milan and FC Barcelona , rumors began to circulate that he was friends with Inter coach José Mourinho and therefore preferred Inter at the game. He recognized an offside goal from Diego Milito as a regular and denied Barcelona a penalty.

On May 29, 2011, he directed the international charity match between Germany and Uruguay in Sinsheim .

Appearances at the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa

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Individual evidence

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  3. Champions League: Benquerença old Mourinho friend?