Sunday 22/June/2025 – 05:22 AM
The FIFA announced the arbitration team for the confrontations of the last round of the first group in the 2025 Club World Cup. The scene is the top of the appointment of the Venezuelan referee Jesus Valencallia to manage the Egyptian Al -Ahly match against Portuguese Porto.
The upcoming match between Al -Ahly and Porto will be held next Tuesday at Mettlav Stadium at four o’clock Cairo time. At the same time, the other confrontation will take place in the group between Inter Miami and Brazilian Miras.
Al -Ahly and Porto match arbitration:
Jesus Valencallia will take the task of leading the match as a referee, and his citizens assist him, Jorge Orego and Tele Moreno as assistant referee. While the Emirati referee Omar Al -Ali will be in the fourth referee seat.
Valencallia and Al -Ahly: Previous History
This is not the first time that Valencallia has managed a match for Al-Ahly, as he previously managed the “Red Genie” match against the Saudi Jeddah Federation in the 2023 Club World Cup version. That match ended with Al-Ahly winning 3-1, and witnessed the expulsion of French player Anthony Modest from Al-Ahly.
Valencallia, 41, is one of the elite rulers in South America. He owns a busy arbitration biography, where he ran the final of the Ricoba Sud Americana (the championship equivalent to the continental super), and the final of the Cuba Sud Americana also. He also led the final of the Intercontinental Cup 2025 between Real Madrid and Mexican Pachuka.
During the 2024-2025 season, the Venezuelan referee managed 24 games, during which 114 yellow cards and 5 red cards, and calculated 6 penalty kicks. At the current Club World Cup, he managed the Chelsea match against Los Angeles, which ended with the victory of the “Blues” with a score of 2-0, during which 4 yellow cards. He also previously managed 5 games in the last season of the Saudi League, most notably the Jeddah derby between Al -Ittihad and Al -Ahly, which ended with the victory of Al -Ittihad with a goal without a response.
