Unusual: Champions League referees arrested for stealing traffic signs while intoxicated
Polish referees Bartosz Frankowski and Tomasz Musial have been suspended by UEFA until further notice after being arrested in their country hours before they were to officiate a match in the preliminary stages of the 2024/25 Champions League.
The Champions League 2024/25 will be remembered not only for its strange new format of play, but because its The qualifying phase began with one of the most unusual events and tragicomic that world football remembers.
Los Referees Bartosz Frankowski and Tomasz Musial were appointed to be in the VAR from the meeting between Dynamo kyiv and Rangersbut hours before traveling They decided to go out and celebrate in Lublin, Poland.
However, and Due to the obvious excess of alcohol, both were arrested by the police. Polish, along with a third subject, after Steal a traffic sign and head to the mall from the city with her.
The spokesman for the Lublin City Police Headquarters, Superintendent Kamil Gołębiowski, told local media that “aAt around 1:40 a.m. we received a report of three men carrying a traffic sign down the street. Police officers were dispatched to the scene. All the men were drunk and had more than 1.5 ml of alcohol in their blood.”.
For its part, the UEFA not only excluded Bartosz Frankowski and Tomasz Musial from the match of the Champions League, but suspended them until further notice and opened disciplinary proceedings against them.
