His name is Michael Heselschwerdt, UEFA club director of competitions based on his high-sounding title, and the guy deserves a nice email notification signed from HR out of his box, to say the least. The great organizer of the draw, supposed to give the correct balls to Andrei Arshavin, the guest celebrity this year, planted himself in great width when choosing the potential opponent of Villarreal.
Este Sorto es más ilegal que su puta madre. Hagan algo useless @VillarrealCF pic.twitter.com/bWYsuf9mw8
– 〽️ (@HappyVillarreal) December 13, 2021
Manchester United could not be, since the two clubs were from the same group, but the German all the same added the English ball in the pot, and obviously, it was necessary for Arshavin to shoot THE ONLY BALL NOT TO SHOT, that of MU. A dumpling immediately noticed by Giogio Marchetti, the final boss.
And there, the drama followed. Instead of removing the ball and restarting the draw, this good Michael Heselschwerdt, who nobody thought of correcting, simply pulled out the Manchester United ball leaving it aside until the end of the draw. This did not make laugh the supporters of Atlético Madrid, who saw that the MU ball remained toasty warm as the English club were among the possible opponents of the Colchoneros, who ultimately inherited Bayern Munich a notch above to put it nicely.
#UCL pic.twitter.com/tsZq1tVk2W
– Sion Parry🏴 (@ SionParry9) December 13, 2021
Ultimately, it is therefore PSG who inherited an opponent who could / should have left much earlier if the procedure had been followed, which will not fail to make all passing conspirators react to the will of the authorities to organize an ultimate reunion between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
A doubt also arose when Lille was not included in the possible opponents of Sporting Portugal, yet 2nd in another pool and a different country, but that had to do with the remaining draws. With Chelsea, Manchester United, Paris and Juventus, any combination was impossible: Chelsea could neither draw MU (same country), nor Juve (same pool), nor PSG (same rank, 2nd in the pool). Another consequence of the incredible mistake made by friend Heselschwerdt at the start of the program.
“Due to a technical issue with software from an external service provider that tells officials which teams are eligible to play others, a hardware error occurred during the draw. Consequently, the draw has been declared void and will be completely redone at 3:00 pm ”, finally indicated the European football confederation at the beginning of the afternoon.