Who is the referee for the Argentina-Croatia match in the Qatar 2022 World Cup semi-finals?

FIFA announced the identity of the referee for the Argentina-Croatia match in the 2022 Qatar World Cup semi-finals.

Argentina and Croatia will meet in the semi-finals of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, next Tuesday, December 13, on the grounds of the “Lusail Stadium”.

The Argentina national team had qualified for the World Cup semi-finals after defeating the Netherlands on penalties, after the end of the original and extra time with a positive draw 2-2, while the Croatian national team qualified after defeating Brazil on penalties also after a 1-1 draw.

Who is the referee for the Argentina-Croatia match in the Qatar 2022 World Cup semi-finals?

The match between Argentina and Croatia in the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup, will be the whistle of Italian referee Daniele Orsato, and will be assisted by Ciro Carboni and Alessandro Gyallettini.

Referee Massimiliano Irrati and Paolo Valeri will also be present as video assistant referees.

What matches did Orsato manage in the 2022 Qatar World Cup?

This confrontation will be the second that referee Daniele Orsato has directed for the Argentine national team in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, after his meeting with the Mexico national team, and his third in the World Cup after the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador.

Orsato emerged as one of the main candidates to manage the final, especially since he refereed the opening match in the tournament between the host country Qatar and Ecuador, and then was present in Argentina’s 2-0 victory in the group stage over Mexico.

While with the Croatian national team, Orsato managed 3 matches historically, winning two of them, while he was defeated 0-1 in the third against England in the European Nations Cup 2020.

Who is Daniele Orsato, the referee of the Argentina-Croatia match in the 2022 World Cup semi-finals?

Daniele Orsato is one of the elite referees in Europe, and has many final matches in the Euros and the Champions League in his record, but he has never led any World Cup matches before the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Danilo Orsato is a 46-year-old Italian referee, who started his arbitration career since 2002 and is currently the first referee in Italy.

Orsato participated in the last World Cup, but as a video referee, and that was during the Denmark-Croatia match in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

In all, the Italian referee led 540 matches in various tournaments throughout his long career, during which he scored 2,585 yellow cards, 63 red cards, and awarded 142 penalties.

What did Messi say against arbitration after the Netherlands match?

The pressure continues on the referees in the 2022 World Cup, especially after Portugal and the Netherlands accused the referees in the Qatar World Cup of favoring Argentina.

Many referees in the tournament were criticized for their performance, especially in the quarter-finals. After the Argentina-Netherlands match, referee Lahoz was criticized by both sides.

Perhaps the most prominent of these criticisms was from the Argentine national team star, Lionel Messi, who accused the referee of having influenced the course of the match.

Messi said after the Netherlands match against Argentina: “I felt great sadness and resentment after the Netherlands equalizer. The referee affected the course of the match and we had already feared him before the match. FIFA must review itself in assigning the match to this referee.”

The Netherlands national team had scored the equalizing goal 2-2 against Argentina after the end of the original time of the match by 10 minutes, the referee granted it as a lost allowance.