MILAN - Portuguese referee Pedro Proença Oliveira Alves Garcia will officiate
Inter v Olympique Marseille, the second leg round of 16 match of the 2011/12
UEFA Champions League scheduled for Tuesday 13 March at the Stadio Giuseppe
Meazza in the San Siro district of Milan (20:45 kick-off).
Born in Lisbon on 3 November 1970, Proença debuted in the top division in Portugal in 1998 and was named best national referee of the 2006/07 season. He has been an international ref since 1 January 2003. In 2004 he officiated the final of the European Under-19 Football Championship (Turkey v Spain) and in September 2007 he made his debut in the UEFA Champions League (PSV v CSKA Moscow). In 2009 he took part in the European Under-21 Football Championship (Italy v Germany was one of the matches he refereed). He was then promoted by UEFA to their Elite category for the 2009/10 season.
In May 2011 he officiated his first semi-final in the Champions League (Manchester United v Schalke 04) and at the end of the 2010/11 season he was elected by the FPF (Portuguese Football Federation) as the best referee in the league, repeating his success of the previous year. In December 2011 he was officially selected for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine.
Tuesday's match with Inter will be the third for Proença after Bayern Munich v Inter (15 March 2011, 2-3) and Twente v Inter (14 September 2010, 2-2), but he was also the 4th official in Olympique Marseille v Inter (2003/04 UEFA Cup). Five of his compatriots will take part in the match with him: Bertino Cunha Miranda and Riccardo Jorge Ferreira Santos as assistants, Joao Carlos Santos Capela as the fourth man, and Manuel Jorge Neves Moreira De Sousa and Duarte Nuno Pereira Gomes as additional assistants.
