Next Sunday Anoeta will experience the final of the Women's Champions League between Wolfsburg and Olympique de Lyon. Barcelona fell in the semifinals and also Irene Paredes' PSG but Lola Gallardo will have Spanish company in this final.
The collegiate Esther Staubli will direct the game from the grass and in the VAR she will be accompanied by two Spanish braids, Jose María Sánchez Martínez as VAR and Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea as AVAR (VAR assistant).
With their participation in this final between the German and French teams, both will add to the notable presence of Spanish refereeing in this final phase of continental football since Alejandro Hernández Hernández and Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar already participated in the Champions League final. Men's League between Bayern and Paris Saint-Germain.
In this 19-20 season, Sánchez Martínez already refereed several UEFA Europa League matches in which Rennes and Celtic, Borussia Monchengladbach and Istanbul Basaksehir and Gent-Roma faced each other. In LaLiga he has whistled up to nineteen times this season.
Olympique de Lyon beat Paris Saint-Germain in the semifinals and will seek this Sunday to win their fifth consecutive Champions League. The Rhone team beat Barcelona in Hungary 4-1 last year and want to revalidate their crown.