Calculated by Mane and Napoli’s disappointment .. What do you know about the referee of the King’s Cup final?

In one month, Italian referee Mauricio Mariani, the son of the capital, Rome, managed to win the confidence of Saudi and Italian football federalism to manage the cup final in both countries.

Mariani, 43, was chosen as a referee for the Italian Cup final between the Milan and Bologna teams, which was won by the latter, May 14, and after about two weeks, it was assigned the task of arbitration in the final of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, scheduled for Friday, between Al -Ittihad and Qadisiyah.
The young man has been involved in the arbitration profession since he reached the age of 16, and began its professional practice in 2000 through the “Yarrinte” championship that Italy has been organized for the junior category from 11 to 12 years.
After that, it graduated in the different groups of the Italian league to the fourth section 2007, then the second 2011.
On January 6, 2013, he appeared for the first time in the highest level of the League, “Syria A”, when he managed the match between Chievo Verona and Atlanta.
On December 12, 2018, he was included in the list of international referees starting in 2019, and FIFA attached it to the assistant video rulers list at the beginning of 2021, while the end of 2024 was promoted to the category of “elite”.
Throughout its history, Mariani led 169 games in the Italian League, and 18 for the Cup Championship, the last of which is the final of the last season.
12 times appeared in the Champions League, all before the exclusionary roles, with the exception of two, the first between Paris Saint -Germain and Aston Villa, for the first leg of the ongoing quarter -finals, and the other between Borussia Dortmund, Germany and Barcelona, ​​in the second round.
In the European League, his whistle seized eight games, the last of which was between Budo Glimt Norwegian and Tottenham Hotspur in the second leg of the semi -finals of the last version, which was crowned “Duke London”.
Thanks to an exchange program, within the cooperation agreement between the European Union “UEFA” and its South American counterpart “Conmipol”, it was called for arbitration in the “Copa America” ​​hosted by the United States last year, and managed three meetings during its competitions, by two in the group stage, and one for the quarter -finals between Colombia and Panama.
Outside Italy, the referee won requests for recruitment from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Greece, to manage matches in local championships.
Mariani had previously come to Riyadh last year, and he ruled the victory and the Gulf match at the “First Park” stadium in the King’s Cup semi -finals, and he calculated a penalty for yellow, from which Senegalese striker Sadio Mane scored a goal. Al -Nasr won 3-1 in that match.
On October 6, 2023, the fortieth referee was appointed to Al Ain and Al -Nasr match in the UAE league competitions.
The fingers of blame were directed to some of his controversial decisions, the most famous of which was the lost penalty that he calculated for the Institute of Inter Milan in the 1-1 draw with Napoli, last November, in the Italian League.
According to the newspaper “La Gazzetta dello Sport”, the Referees Committee punished him against the background of that strike, which was considered unclear, by removing it from the first degree to the second for a specific period, while Gianluca Rocky, the head of the committee, described Mariani’s decision as “lenient” and “below the required level.”

Away from the arbitration field, the Italian man works as an IT IT consultant, according to his educational degree.