Jonas Eriksson (referee)
Jonas Eriksson ( born March 28, 1974 in Sigtuna ) is a Swedish FIFA referee.
Career
Eriksson began in 1994 as a referee at Svenska Fotbollförbundet to. Four years later he came to his first appearance in the second division, in 2000 he made his debut in Allsvenskan. In the same year he whistled for the first time at international level, he was FIFA referee in 2002. In the following years he came in various European Cup games are used and managed games in qualifying for the European and World Championships.
Eriksson operation with two business partners a sports agency, where he was involved with over ten percent. As the Agency has been taken in the summer of 2007 for 750 million Swedish crowns (about 85 million euros ) from the French group Lagardère, Eriksson received a fair share. As a result, there was a media echo that particular alluded to that in football normally only the players are millionaires.
Special applications
On 20 December 2011, UEFA announced that Eriksson as one of twelve referees for the Euro 2012 football championship in the squad heard. He led a total of two games.
On August 30, 2013 Eriksson led the match FC Bayern Munich vs Chelsea FC in Prague in the UEFA Super Cup, which was won by the German representatives in the penalty shootout. As a result, he faced criticism by José Mourinho, the coach of the defeated England team faced.
After Eriksson had led already in the UEFA qualifiers for the World Cup finals in 2014 Games, the World Federation entrusted him with the management of the intercontinental play-off match between Uruguay and Jordan, which ended in a 0-0 draw. It is intended as one of nine UEFA representatives as referee for the management of games at the finals in the summer of 2014 in Brazil.