{"id":11081,"date":"2025-02-24T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/galatasaray-v-fenerbahce-slovenian-referee-for-super-lig-fixture\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:28:58","slug":"galatasaray-v-fenerbahce-slovenian-referee-for-super-lig-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/galatasaray-v-fenerbahce-slovenian-referee-for-super-lig-fixture\/","title":{"rendered":"Galatasaray v Fenerbahce: Slovenian referee for Super Lig fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic has been appointed for the Istanbul derby between Turkey’s title rivals Galatasaray and Fenerbahce.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 45-year-old has been drafted in by the Turkish Football Federation for Monday’s top-of-the-table fixture after a request from both clubs, according to ESPN. , external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The decision to use the official who took charge of last season’s Champions League final follows several controversies in Turkish football over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n

Adana Demirspor walked off the pitch during their match<\/a> with Galatasaray earlier this month in protest at a penalty awarded against them. <\/p>\n

The league was suspended in December 2023<\/a> after a referee was punched on the pitch by MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca after his team conceded a 97th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n

Fenerbahce trail league leaders Galatasaray in the Super Lig by six points before Monday’s game (17:00 GMT). <\/p>\n

Fenerbahce head coach Jose Mourinho has welcomed the decision after previously describing the environment in the country as “toxic”. <\/p>\n

“I think it’s important for the credibility, for the image of the match,” Mourinho said.<\/p>\n

“If it is a top referee, and it’s a top European referee, I am happy with that because I love to win like everybody else but I am a person that needs fair play.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic has been appointed for the Istanbul derby between Turkey’s title rivals Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. The 45-year-old has been drafted in by the Turkish Football Federation for Monday’s top-of-the-table fixture after a request from both clubs, according to ESPN. , external The decision to use the official who took charge of last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11083,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions\/11083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}