Peter Mikkelsen

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Peter Mikkelsen led the World Cup round of 16 Netherlands - Ireland on July 4, 1994 in Orlando, Florida .

Peter Mikkelsen (born May 1, 1960 in Copenhagen - † January 30, 2019 ) was a Danish football referee .

Career as a referee

In the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy , he led Germany - Yugoslavia and the knockout round encounter England - Belgium . At the European Football Championship in Sweden in 1992 , he was in charge of the CIS - Netherlands . At the Football World Cup in the USA in 1994 , he directed Spain - South Korea , Switzerland - Colombia and the last sixteen Netherlands - Ireland . Speculations that Mikkelsen would be entrusted with directing the final were dashed by the intervention of FIFA President João Havelange , who pushed through the Hungarian Sándor Puhl .

At the European Championships in England in 1996, he whistled the game between Bulgaria and Romania . After he had overlooked a supposedly regular goal in the course of the game, he was subsequently exposed to severe criticism.

Peter Mikkelsen was active as a referee observer for UEFA and took great care of the Danish referees. He was a member of the FIFA Referees Committee . In 1992 he was a member of an expert commission initiated by Sepp Blatter , which proposed revisions to the football rules under the name “Task Force 2000” . This included, in particular, the change to the back-pass rule implemented later , but also ideas on time penalties and the introduction of a sudden death mode for decision-making in the extension .

On January 30, 2019 Mikkelsen died of at the age of 58 years suffering from cancer . Previously, he had been dependent on a wheelchair for years because of a paralysis on one side that was associated with the disease .

Sporting success as a referee

honors and awards

  • World referee of the year 1991 and 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Mikkel Asferg: The tidligere topdommer Peter Mikkelsen er død. In: tv2.dk . January 30, 2019, accessed January 31, 2019 (Danish).
  2. ^ "Criticism of EM referees - The men with the pipe harvest a whistle concert" in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung from June 25, 1996
  3. "The Task Force and the Jacobins" in Die Tageszeitung No. 3659 of March 18, 1992, page 13
  4. nordschleswiger.dk: "Top referee Peter Mikkelsen died" (accessed on January 31, 2019)