This Sunday (6:00 p.m.) will kick off the eighth finals of the World Cup of clubs between PSG and Inter Miami. A shock for which a referee has never come across the Parisians.
PSG is targeting a qualification for the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup this Sunday. Faced with Inter Miami (6:00 p.m.), the club of the capital will not be entitled to error if he wishes to find, the next round, the winner of the confrontation between Bayern Munich and Flamengo, which will take place later in the evening (10:00 p.m.). In the meantime, the referee of this meeting between Parisians and Floridians is known.
Wilton Sampaio, Brazilian referee, will indeed officiate on the occasion of this shock. A name that says nothing to the capital's club, since it is the first time that it will cross its path. Which is normal, since the man with the referee whistle of meetings in the Conmebol zone. This means that it is also a novelty for Inter Miami, which evolves within the Concacaf zone.
If he has never refereed neither PSG nor Inter Miami, Wilton Sampaio has however already crossed paths with certain players. This is the case of Ousmane Dembélé in particular, which he had arbitrated during the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup between the French team and England (2-1).
The Brazilian has also already crossed the road to Lionel Messi or Luis Suarez, having arbitrated Argentina or Uruguay in Copa America.
