Staff Correspondent|Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off on his Champions League debut for Juventus against Valencia. Felix Brych, who gave red card, was once suspended in FIFA world cup for bad refreeing and unfair decisions.

This summer, the German referee was told by FIFA that he will not be used again at the World Cup after having made just one appearance at the tournament, the Group E match between Serbia and Switzerland.

Serbia lodged a complaint with football’s world governing body FIFA after they felt they should have been awarded a penalty in their 2-1 defeat in Kaliningrad.

Brych waved play on after Serbian striker Aleksandar Mitrovic appeared to have been wrestled to the ground by both Stephan Lichtsteiner and Fabian Schär. The Munich native stood by his on-field decision and controversially opted not to make use of the video assistant review system.

“The course of the World Cup is of course a bitter disappointment for me and my team. But life goes on and we’ll be back,” Brych said after the ban.