(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 1. UEFA has appointedKonul Mehtiyeva, Vice President and Head of the InternationalRelations Department of the Association of Football Federations ofAzerbaijan (AFFA), to EURO-2024, according to a source in AFFA,Trend reports via Idman .
She was appointed for the final stage of the EuropeanChampionship to be held in Germany this year.
Thus, for the first time, a representative from Azerbaijan willparticipate in such a prestigious tournament.
Mehtiyeva will represent UEFA in five games of EURO-2024, to beorganized in Frankfurt from June 17 to July 1.
She will oversee the group stage matches between Belgium andSlovakia on June 17, Denmark and England on June 20, Switzerlandand Germany on June 23, Slovakia and Romania on June 26, and the1/8 final match on July 1.
To note, the UEFA representative is the highest-ranking matchofficial assigned to the games and tournaments held by thecontinental football body.
The representative has overall authority over all aspects of theorganization of the games and is responsible for ensuring theorderly organization of the match or tournament and maintainingdiscipline and security before, during, and after the game, bothinside and outside the stadium.
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