changes the referee of the Champions League final Manchester City Inter?- Corriere.it

Szymon Marciniak was chosen by UEFA to referee the Champions League final, scheduled in Istanbul on 10 June, between Manchester City and Inter. This is the same whistle that also directed the last act of the World Cup between Argentina and France. In short, in his profession he is simply the best. In the last few hours, however, he has been denounced by the Never Again association — Poland’s main anti-racist organization based in Warsaw — for taking part in a corporate event organized by a far-right leader, Slawomir Mentzen. The latter leads a populist coalition known for its xenophobic, homophobic, racist and anti-Jewish positions. UEFA said it wanted urgent clarifications. European football’s main body said a further announcement would be made on Friday, after examining all the evidence.

Storm over Marciniak, UEFA: We will take the allegations seriously

In short, the dust that arose in Poland soon reached the Nyon offices: We are shocked and appalled by Marciniak’s public association with Mentzen and his brand of toxic far-right politics — declared the co-founder of Never Again Rafal Pankowski — incompatible with the fundamental values ​​of equality and respect. Mentzen the leader of the populist party Konfederacja and chose Marciniak as a keynote speaker at a business conference for entrepreneurs held on Monday in Katowice, in Poland. For its part, UEFA stated in a statement that the entire football community detests the values ​​promoted by the group in question and takes these allegations very seriously. Never Again invited Marciniak to acknowledge his mistake: If he doesn’t, we believe that UEFA and Fifa should draw the necessary consequences.