He is not on the FIFA list, but he referees the final of the championship! “Confirmations” from Kyros Vassaras

Confirmation has arrived for the final of the championship, between the University of Craiova and U Cluj, tomorrow evening, Sunday, from 20:30 in Bănie. The match will be refereed by Marcel Bîrsan. The 44-year-old “central” is highly regarded by the head of the CCA, Kyros Vassaras, although he has been without the FIFA badge for a year and a half.

Kyros Vassaras also sent Cătălin Popa to the VAR room in the championship final

According to the official information, the referee from the Capital will be helped on the two lines by assistants Valentin Avram (Bucharest) and Imre Bucsi (Sfântu Gheorghe).

At the same time, one of the information that appeared in the media yesterday was confirmed. The VAR referee was delegated to Cătălin Popa (Pitesti), as Golazo had announced a few days ago, and the VAR assistant – Vasile Marinescu (Bucharest).

Popa was vehemently contested by the Dynamo players and by experts from the world of domestic football, but also by the referee, after validating Nsimba's goal by which the University of Craiova defeated “the pack”, score 2-1, in the previous match on the home field of the Juves.

Although Romanian refereeing specialists also said that the success of the white-blue striker came as a result of a reactivated offside by the footballer, later, Kyros Vassaras came out publicly and defended Cătălin Popa. He invoked a passage from the VAR protocol, more precisely.

The University of Craiova matches that Marcel Bîrsan refereed this season:

Craiova University – U Cluj 2-1, stage 3, victory

University of Craiova – Farul Constanța 2-0, stage 9, victory

University of Craiova – Rapid 2-2, stage 15, draw

University of Craiova – FC Botoșani 2-0, stage 23, victory

University of Craiova – CFR Cluj 2-0, stage 3 play-off, victory.

The Cluj University matches that Marcel Bîrsan refereed this season:

Craiova University – U Cluj 2-1, stage 3, defeat

UTA Arad – U Cluj 0-2, stage 17, victory

U Cluj – Farul Constanța 1-0, stage 21, victory

U Cluj – FC Argeș 3-1, stage 25, victory

U Cluj – Oțelul Galati 4-0, stage 29, victory

FC Argeș – U Cluj 0-1, stage 2 play-off, victory.

Marcel Bîrsan, contested by Sorin Cârțu: “Modest performance”

In January of this year, Sorin Cârțu, the honorary president of Craiova University, criticized Marcel Bîrsan for his performance during the match played against FC Botoşani, won by Olteni 2-0.

“He had a performance, like this, below what we expected. He irritated everyone. I'm not thinking about anything preconceived. But a modest performance. He is marked when he comes to Craiova. The importance of the match, the audience, the atmosphere.

He should be more careful when he comes to Craiova. But if he has such benefits, he better not come. He had the style of a corporal, a sergeant. To punish everyone. He must take action. Felgueiras is still a sports director, he didn't go to curse him. You have to go, discuss”, declared Sorin Cârțu, after the match with the Moldovans.

Marcel Bîrsan is not to the liking of those from U Cluj for the final of the championship: “It raises questions”

Yesterday, the president of U Cluj, Radu Constantea, declared for GSP.ro that he would prefer another referee for the game in Banie.

“I think it was necessary to delegate some top referees for this final of the championship. Not that Marcel Bârsan is not good! We don't want this to be understood.

We just think that the best rated Romanian referees, Istvan Kovacs and Marian Barbu, could be chosen from the first two. For this type of match, one of the two was indicated.

We hope that there will be no problems with arbitration and we start from the premise that there will not be. Of course these delegations raise questions, but I don't think there will be any problems.

It's clear that there have been refereeing issues over the last three weeks. We don't want the match to be decided by a possible refereeing error,” commented Radu Constantea yesterday.