Referee with bad history for Sporting picked for Portuguese Cup clash | OneFootball

Ricardo Baixinho has been appointed as the referee for the Sporting - Marinhense match, a game counting towards the Portuguese Cup, which the Alvalade club will play next Saturday, November 22. The Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation recently announced the appointments for the next round of the premier competition.

For the Sporting match against Marinhense, the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation chose Ricardo Baixinho as the main referee. He will be assisted by Pedro Mota and Nuno Pires, with Flávio Lima serving as the fourth official.

It is worth recalling that Ricardo Baixinho’s recent history with the Alvalade club has not been the happiest. Last season was marked by an AVS - Sporting match where the Portuguese referee made several mistakes against the Lions, which did not go unnoticed by sports commentators. This season, he has not yet officiated any official matches for the green and whites, but he was the main referee in the Cinco Violinos trophy, a match Rui Borges’s team won against Villareal.

The appointments by the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation also deserve three additional highlights. Fábio Veríssimo, a referee recently at the center of controversy in Portuguese football due to the pressures he faced from Porto, was appointed to officiate the match between Benfica and Atlético.

Gustavo Correia, who officiated the last Benfica match, where the Eagles drew 2-2 with Casa Pia, will referee the AVS SAD - Académico de Viseu game. Meanwhile, João Gonçalves, the main referee of the Santa Clara - Sporting match, was chosen to officiate the V. Guimarães-Mortágua game.

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