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While a prestigious poster will be held this Sunday in Doha (Qatar) between two favorites for the Ligue 1 title, the referee of the match will find a Monegasque team with whom he does not share very good memories.
Summit match in Doha. The 2025 Champions Trophy will offer, this Sunday afternoon, a duel between Paris Saint-Germain, leader of Ligue 1, and one of its fierce pursuers, AS Monaco. Willy Delajod was appointed to direct it from the pitch of Stadium 974 in Doha (Qatar).
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The 32-year-old referee has already managed these two teams on numerous occasions, having been playing in Ligue 1 for more than seven years. However, in 2024, the native of Cornier (Haute-Savoie) experienced difficult times the last times he refereed AS Monaco. Already, at the end of January 2024. He was then officiating at the Vélodrome for a poster between Marseille and Monaco (2-2, final score).
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“I received anonymous calls…”
During this meeting, Willy Delajod notably excluded Guillermo Maripan, as well as Denis Zakaria, two ASM players. A real estate business manager, the referee was then inundated with messages. “I received anonymous calls insulting me. I had to face a lot of opposition on social networks to the point of asking my communications agency to delete all the hate messages” he said a few weeks later late in Le Dauphiné.
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“When a club feels wronged, it pushes with all its weight on a referee who will find himself alone against 3,000” he continued, referring to the words of Thiago Scuro, general manager of the Monaco club, who had castigated the arbitration on French television. Last September 1, during Monaco-Lens, it was due to the cancellation of a Lensois goal at the end of the match (while the two teams were at 1-1) that he had to explain the antennas of DAZN, broadcaster of the match.
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