Antonio López Nieto

Antonio Jesús López Nieto (born January 25, 1958) is a Spanish football referee, who has officiated at one FIFA World Cup and during the UEFA Champions League.

In 1995, López Nieto accused representatives of FC Dynamo Kyiv of attempting to bribe him before a UEFA Champions League game against Panathinaikos of Greece. As a result of this accusation, UEFA banned Dynamo from competitions for two years. [cite news
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEED8103AF932A1575AC0A963958260
title=Dynamo Kiev Banned from European Play
publisher=AP, via the New York Times
date=September 21, 1995
accessdate=2006-06-19]

In 2000 he refereed the UEFA Cup final between Galatasaray-Arsenal. Nieto set a record at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, issuing 16 yellow cards in a match between Germany and Cameroon. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/matches_wallchart/cameroon_v_germany/default.stm
title=Germany overcome Cameroon
publisher=BBC
date=June 11, 2002
accessdate=2006-06-19] The record was equaled in the 2006 tournament by Valentin Ivanov.

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External links

* [http://2002.fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/02/en/t/rf/37316.html Bio from 2002 World Cup] - FIFA World Cup (official website)