{"id":460934,"date":"2018-08-20T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20180820-o-servos-mazic-sfurizei-stin-toumba\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T07:50:00","slug":"20180820-o-servos-mazic-sfurizei-stin-toumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20180820-o-servos-mazic-sfurizei-stin-toumba\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Ma\u017ei\u0107 to referee in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born on 23 March 1973 in Vrbas, Serbia, <strong>Milorad Ma\u017ei\u0107<\/strong> has been a professional referee since 2006. In 2008, he took charge of his first derby between Belgrade archrivals Red Star and FK Partizan \u2013since then he has been appointed to 12 more of them, holding the relevant record between Serbian referees. <\/p>\n<p>He earned his FIFA badge in 2009 and started officiating mainly encounters between youth national sides. On 9 July of the same year, he made his UEFA Europa League debut, refereeing the 1st-qualifying-round match between Llanelli FC and Motherwell FC (0-3).<\/p>\n<p>He came up through the ranks in impressive pace and in 2010 he took charge of his first UEFA Champions League qualifier, Inter Baku prevailing 1-0 away over Lech Pozna\u0144 in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he was promoted to the UEFA Elite Development Category and since then has been selected for all major football events. He officiated in the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil and Russia respectively, in the UEFA Euro 2016 in France and in last season\u2019 FIFA Confederations Cup, where he was assigned the final match, between Chile and Germany, the Nationalmannschaft prevailing 1-0 and claiming the trophy. The stellar moment in Ma\u017ei\u0107\u2019s career so far was refereeing the UEFA Champions League final of 2018, between Real Madrid and Liverpool (3-1 for the Spanish side).<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Ma\u017ei\u0107 and PAOK cross paths. On 15 September 2011, the Serbian referee was assigned the Toumba encounter against Tottenham Hotspur (0-0), for the opening day of the UEFA Europa League group stage.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-460435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog-429x288.jpg 429w, https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog-130x87.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog-266x179.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mazic_referee_inblog-696x467.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Ma\u017ei\u0107 also officiated AEK Athens\u2019s 4-2 loss to FC Zenit St.Petersburg in 2010 and Olympiakos\u2019s 1-0 away victory over FC Rubin Kazan in 2012 and 1-0 win over Juventus in \u201cG. Karaiskakis\u201d in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian referee will be accompanied in Est\u00e1dio da Luz by his countrymen <strong>Milovan Risti\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Dalibor Djurdjevi\u0107<\/strong>, the assistant referees, with <strong>Nemanja Petrovi\u0107<\/strong> acting as fourth officical. <strong>Nenad Djoki\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Danilo Gruji\u0107<\/strong> complete the team as additional assistant referees, while <strong>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 V\u00e1gner<\/strong> from Hungary will be the Referee Observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milorad Ma\u017ei\u0107 will take charge of the first-leg encounter between SL Benfica and PAOK in Est\u00e1dio da Luz for the UEFA Champions League play-offs.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":460427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[1504,1528,2250,4672,5724,8298,8341,11431,11433,11457,11458],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - 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