It was the scandal of the European Championship: the disallowed handball by the Spaniard Cucurella in the quarter-final against Germany. Now a UEFA commission has come to the conclusion: That was a mistake.
Then as now, it inflamed the tempers of German fans: the failure to blow the whistle for the handball committed by Spaniard Marc Cucurella in extra time of the quarter-final between Spain and Germany. Jamal Musiala had shot at the Spanish defender.
As it turns out, the European Football Union (UEFA) considers the denied whistle for the German national team to be a mistake. This is reported by the Spanish platform “Relevo”. According to the report, the umbrella organization’s referee committee analyzed some European Championship tournament scenes last week and came to the conclusion that, according to current regulations, a penalty should have been awarded to Germany for Marc Cucurella’s handball.
According to reports, referee chief Roberto Rosetti is said to have drawn up a document for UEFA that was sent to top international referees. This happens regularly so that referees make the same decisions in similar situations. In the latest document, the German “outrage of the year” that happened more than two months ago is apparently explicitly mentioned as a case study.
Uefa: Cucurella’s hand has increased body surface area
According to the document, “a hand-ball contact that prevents a shot on goal should be punished more severely and in most cases a penalty should be awarded, unless the defender’s arm is very close to the body or touches the body,” Relovo quotes from the UEFA document: “In this case, the defender stopped the shot on goal with his arm, which is not very close to the body, thereby increasing his own size, so a penalty should have been awarded.”
Cucurella was hit on the left arm by a shot from Jamal Musiala in the quarter-finals of the European Championship when Germany lost to Spain (1:2 after extra time). The English referee Anthony Taylor denied the hosts a handball penalty in extra time when the score was 1:1, and the video assistant did not intervene. The German referees would also have blown the whistle. “The evidence points to handball for us,” said the new referee boss Knut Kircher at the beginning of August.
The scene had heated up many tempers in July during the European Championships at home. However, it is still unclear whether the German Niclas Füllkrug was offside when he made the pass to Musiala. In that case, it would not have mattered whether Cucurella’s handball was punishable. Spain moved into the semi-finals after a narrow 2-1 victory over the DFB team in Stuttgart. There, the Spaniard Cucurella was booed by the German crowd in Munich in the match against France.
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