{"id":1236,"date":"2025-11-18T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:34:28","slug":"zwayer-to-referee-spain-turkey-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/zwayer-to-referee-spain-turkey-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Zwayer to referee Spain-Turkey match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>German official Felix Zwayer assigned to Tuesday&#8217;s World Cup European Qualifier between Spain and Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German referee Felix Zwayer has been appointed by UEFA to officiate Tuesday&#8217;s Spain-Turkey match, the final fixture in the FIFA World Cup European Qualifiers, to be played at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville, kicking off at 20:45 CET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zwayer will be assisted by fellow Germans Robert Kempter and Christian Dietz, with Sven Jablonski as the fourth official. Bastian Dankert and Daniel Schlager will serve as the VAR officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Berlin-born referee, a 44-year-old estate agent and international official since 2012, will take charge of his third Spain national team match. &#8216;La Roja&#8217; won 2-0 against France at the Stade de France on 28 March 2017 with goals from David Silva and Gerard Deulofeu, and beat Croatia in a penalty shootout in Rotterdam in the Nations League final on 18 June 2023 (0-0, 5-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That Nations League final marked the first international final of his career. This year, he officiated four matches at the European Championship, including the semi-final between England and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German official Felix Zwayer assigned to Tuesday&#8217;s World Cup European Qualifier between Spain and Turkey. German referee Felix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}