Alain Hamer

Alain Hamer ( born December 10, 1965 in Luxembourg (city) ) is a retired Luxembourgian football referee. Hamer is a bank clerk and lives in Forest Cheap.

Hamer solved his first license as an active soccer player at the age of 15 years at the CS Pétange. Since he did not trust a career in the National Division and in his own words was talent-free, the Luxembourg decided pursue a career for football referees. He was promoted to the FIFA referee in 1993. In his career he directed, inter alia, Games in the French Ligue 1, the Belgian Championship and the UEFA Champions League. He also whistled at various junior tournaments, such as the U21 European Championship in 1998 and the Junior World Championships in 2001. Alain Hamer 2004 was selected as fourth official for the European football championship in Portugal.

Only one application at a World Cup was the Luxembourg denied because it was deleted from the list of participants shortly before the World Cup finals in 2006. This is said to have come, according to Hamer unfair things and there were mainly political reasons determine its eventual non- nomination for the 2006 World Cup was.

On the UEFA list - 2007, the international referee, he was one of the 24 elite referees.

After his last mission in December 2010 Hamer finished his referee career at the age of 45 years. Hamer lives openly homosexual.