Tom Henning Øvrebø

Tom Henning Øvrebø ( born June 26, 1966) is a Norwegian football referee.

Career

Øvrebø leads since September 20, 1992 Games of the first Norwegian league. Since 1994 he is a FIFA referee. In December 2007, he was nominated as one of twelve referees for the European Football Championship 2008. Where he led the match between Germany and Poland and the match between Italy and Romania. After the second game in which he ruled offside was not a goal wrongly Italy, and were awarded a controversial penalty against Italy, he was no longer used in the tournament.

Øvrebø initiated on 6 May 2009, the Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Barcelona at Stamford Bridge, encountering numerous controversial decisions. Therefore Øvrebø was towards the end and after the game at the center of tumultuous scenes. So he became of players of Chelsea, in particular Didier Drogba and Michael Ballack, besieged and insulted and had protected from the board of stewards to his cabin to be accompanied. According to newspaper reports Øvrebø received a number of death threats, which is why it needs to change his hotel and had to begin his journey home under police protection after the game.

Even after the first knockout round first leg of their UEFA Champions League 2009/10 match between FC Bayern Munich and Fiorentina Øvrebø was criticized because he did not but knew the winning goal scored by Miroslav Klose off the sidelines for Bayern. However Øvrebø later said his regret at the wrong decision and stated that he had relied on the scene, which led to the gate, to his assistant on the outside line.

In May 2010 Øvrebø ended his international career after he was not nominated for the FIFA World Cup 2010.

Øvrebø studied psychology at the University of Oslo and in 1998 the study successfully.