Charles Corver

Charles George Reinier Corver (16 January 1936 – 10 November 2020) was a Dutch football referee.^[1]

Career

He was decorated twice by the Queen (Order of Orange-Nassau) and the football association (KNVB-UEFA-FIFA).

He refereed the 1982 World Cup semifinal between Germany and France in Seville, Spain, when he deemed goalkeeper Harald Schumacher's collision with Patrick Battiston to be not a foul.^[2] Battiston remained unconscious for over a minute and sustained the loss of three teeth and a damaged vertebrae. This failure is often considered as one of the worst examples of poor refereeing decisions in football.^[3]

Corver was referee at two World Cups and two European championships. He refereed four European Cup finals, ten semifinals and a final World Cup for clubs in Argentina. More than 140 international matches and more than 600 national matches. After his last final (1983) in Portugal he was observer for UEFA-FIFA and KNVB for 22 years and member of the disciplinary committee for sixteen years. His profession was national sales manager at Heineken.

References

• Profile at weltfussball.de at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 May 2007) (in German)

External links

• Charles Corver referee profile at WorldFootball.net
• Charles Corver referee profile at EU-Football.info
• Charles Corver at WorldReferee.com

Preceded by European Cup Final 1977 Robert Wurtz

European Cup Referees Final 1978 Charles Corver

Succeeded by European Cup Final 1979 Erich Linemayr

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