Markus Merk

  • DFB-Pokal 1992/93
  • European Cup Winners' Cup 1996/97
  • UEFA Champions League 2002/ 03
  • 2004 European Football Championship

Markus Merk ( born March 15, 1962 in Kaiserslautern ) is a former German football referee. In spring 2004, he ( with then 242 games) record referee in the Bundesliga.

From 1988 to 2008 he headed games in the Bundesliga, Between 1992 and 2007 he was also a FIFA referee in use. Three times he was elected " World Referee of the Year ".

Life

Markus Merk, son of honorary member of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern Rudi Merk, for ten years was an altar boy in his youth. He lives in Otterbach in Kaiserslautern, is married and has a son. His home club is the first FC Kaiserslautern.

Wish is a trained dentist, his doctorate in 1990. By early 2005, he operated a dental practice in Kaiserslautern. After the sale he is an organizer of ( motivational ) seminars throughout Germany. Since 14 August 2010, he also chaired the Turkish Lig TV television station along with Sansal Büyüka, and Hakan Sukur Hallows Metin the football program Maraton. He is also an expert together with Lothar Matthäus and Jan Åge Fjørtoft the pay-TV broadcaster Sky. He is a member of the German Academy for football culture.

In leisure time and holidays to Wish operated since 1991 volunteer in India. 1999 culminated its commitment to a comprehensive aid project in and around the city Sogospatty (South India ), which he launched with the establishment of the association Indienhilfe Kaiserslautern to life. The project is built and maintained schools, orphanages and other social institutions.

To keep physically fit, dedicated to Wish incidentally also the triathlon.

Important missions

Games

His first Bundesliga game led watch on 20 August 1988 between the VfL ​​Bochum and Bayer Uerdingen (1:1), 1993, he refereed the DFB Cup final match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Hertha BSC amateurs.

On 3 December 1997 Watch whistled the DFB Cup match in Aachen. Alemannia received the SV Waldhof Mannheim. Referee Markus Merk began after Krohms turned the rebound penalty continues the game with a dropped ball after a second ball flew onto the field from the Mannheim block. The protest of Alemannia against the rating of the game was rejected. Alemannia lost the game on penalties.

" As a footballer, for me that was just as incomprehensible as the Aachen spectators in the stands, and of course I feel that for the club concerned, in this case, the Alemannia, as not fair. But for me and it is the right decision, though remains a very bitter aftertaste. "

His best-known game in the Bundesliga was the role of Hamburger SV against Bayern Munich on the last matchday of the 2000/01 season, when shopping in stoppage time after a back pass hamburger Tomáš Ujfaluši goalkeeper Mathias Schober on indirect free kick for Bayern decided. Patrik Andersson transformed to a 1-1 draw, and the Bavarians were used instead of FC Schalke 04 German masters. Because Schalke fans blamed him for the lost championship, shopping was not used until the end of his refereeing again in a game with Schalke participation.

Major international assignments have included the final of the 1997 European Cup Winners' Cup between Paris St Germain and FC Barcelona (0-1), the opening match of Euro 2000 between Belgium and Sweden ( 2:1), 2002, his first World Cup match between Japan and Russia, 2003, the final of the Champions League between Juventus and AC Milan, as well as on 4 July 2004, the final match of Euro 2004 between hosts Portugal and Greece ( 0-1). Overall Wish initiated six European finals games, only Anders Frisk came on more missions.

Wish headed the semifinals of the Confederations Cup in 2003, between Cameroon and Colombia, during which the Cameroon player Marc -Vivien Foe collapsed without external influence and soon after died of heart failure in hospital.

17 November 2007 Wish initiated with the match between Norway and Turkey ( 1:2 ) his 50th and last international match at the same time. His league career ended in the 2007/ 08 season after a total of 339 missions. In conclusion, he whistled the 34th game of the match FC Bayern Munich vs Hertha BSC (4:1 ) as the last Bundesliga game. His career ended with the farewell game of Oliver Kahn on September 2, 2008. Here Bayern Munich played against the DFB national team 1:1.

Tournaments

1992 Wish worked as a referee at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​however, was used only in two games. In 2000, he was referee at the European Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands, where he managed three matches, including the opening game and the semi-final between Italy and the Netherlands. In 2002 he was at the World Cup in Korea and Japan in two games in use.

At the European Championships in Portugal in 2004 was shopping referee of the two preliminary round games between France and England ( 2-1 ) and between Denmark and Sweden ( 2:2 ). By UEFA, he was also entrusted with the management of the final match of the European Championship between Portugal and Greece ( 0-1). Shopping, making it the second German referee after Rudi Glöckner's World Cup final in 1970, who led the final of the World Cup or European Championship. As Assistant him Jan-Hendrik Salver and Christian Schräer stood by the side.

In 2006, he headed to the World Cup in Germany, the Netherlands games against Serbia - Montenegro (1-0 ), Brazil vs Australia ( 2-0) and Ghana against the USA (2-1).

Honors and Awards

  • " DFB Referee of the Year " of the Game 1994 /95 1995/96 1999/2000, 2002/ 03, 2003/ 04, 2005 /06 and 2007/ 08
  • " World Referee of the Year ": 2004, 2005 and 2007
  • Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions to German football, as well as for its outstanding social commitment, awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister President Kurt Beck on 21 March 2005
  • Ethics price of the Catholic Sports Association DJK, awarded by Cardinal Karl Lehmann on 29 June 2007

Writings

  • Oliver Trust, Markus Merk: moving. Bombus -Verlag, Munich 2005
  • Markus Merk: Studies on the change in shape of cold and hot curing denture base materials after ultrasonic treatment, presented by Markus Merk. Cologne, University Diss. , 1990
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