{"id":1217,"date":"2026-04-27T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:02:46","slug":"danny-makkelie-will-referee-atletico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Danny Makkelie will referee Atl\u00e9tico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">The Dutch referee <strong>43 years old, Danny Makkelie,<\/strong> will be in charge of directing the <strong>match between Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid and Arsenal<\/strong> which will be played on Wednesday in the <strong>Metropolitan Stadium. <\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">This local police officer by profession <strong>will meet again with Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid,<\/strong> he <strong>Spanish club for which he has refereed the most games in Europe<\/strong>: a total of <strong>7<\/strong>&#8230;and with a quite positive balance for the team led by Diego Pablo Simeone: <strong>three wins, three draws and one loss. <\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">He <strong>The first game he coached them was in the 2011-12 season against Stromsgodset<\/strong> (with a 2-1 victory) in the qualifying phase for the<strong> Europa League<\/strong>but the most remembered triumph is the one achieved in <strong>Anfield <\/strong>in <strong>2020<\/strong>just before the confinement <strong>covid-19, <\/strong>before him <strong>Liverpool <\/strong>with the <strong>Llorente&#8217;s double and Morata&#8217;s winning goal in extra time (2-3).<\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">The<strong> The only defeat was precisely against the reds two seasons later by 2-0<\/strong> on English soil in the group stage, and the most recent meeting in which they met the Dutchman was two years ago, in 2024-25, in <strong>Prague<\/strong> with a forceful <strong>0-6 to Sparta. <\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch referee 43 years old, Danny Makkelie, will be in charge of directing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}