Lucílio Batista Explained

Lucílio Cardoso Cortez Batista (born 26 April 1965 in Lisbon) is a retired Portuguese football referee. A bank teller by profession, Batista started refereeing Portuguese first division matches in the mid-1990s in the national territory. Internationally, he refereed two matches at UEFA Euro 2004, on home soil.[1] He also refereed two matches at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup in France.

Batista also had a run in the UEFA Champions League (16 matches) and UEFA Cup (ten) during his career.[2] He retired from the game at the end of the 2009–10 season.

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  1. http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=195409.html#batista+portuguese+pride Batista's Portuguese pride
  2. http://worldreferee.com/site/copy.php?linkID=535&linkType=referee&contextType=bio WorldReferee profile