The soccer referee Tom Henning Ovreboerhält, three years after he directed the Champions League match between Chelsea and FC Barcelona death threats.Champions League - Ex-ref: Mourinho as a deterrent
Oslo (Norway) - Norwegian soccer referee Tom Henning Ovrebo receives even three years after he directed the Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and FC Barcelona death threats from England - and star coach Jose Mourinho used in its present seminars as a psychologist as a deterrent. "Sometimes I use his words in speeches, to show that words are just words and can not really hurt," said the Norwegians of the Times, which he occasion of the re-encounter between Chelsea and Barcelona went in the semifinals on Wednesday: "Mourinho could call me the biggest idiot ever, it would not matter to me. "
He had now at Real Madrid, acting violently abused Portuguese Ovrebo after the game, 2009, when the Norwegians refused the English up to four possible penalty and Chelsea had been eliminated. The pictures, when the then national team captain Michael Ballack wildly waving his arms and jumped around with his mouth wide open to the referee went around the world.
Even today, it would therefore normally be threatened, said the Scandinavians, who one year after the game had ended his international career. ".. Recently I again received death threats, but the fly immediately into the garbage can I'll take seriously," he said. "I am surprised only by the people one has emailed me that he wanted to kill me and my family, The. is a little heavy for something that happened at a football game. The funny thing that he is on the Champions League final four years ago moved. That perhaps says something about his intelligence was. "