Myroslav Stupar | |
Fullname: | Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar |
Birth Date: | 27 August 1941 |
Birth Place: | Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Position: | Goalkeeper |
Years1: | 1958–1961 |
Years2: | 1962–1963 |
Clubs2: | Volyn Lutsk |
Years3: | 1964–1965 |
Years4: | 1966–1969 |
Years1: | 1973–1991 |
League1: | Soviet Top League |
Role1: | Referee |
Internationalyears1: | 1977-1982 |
Confederation1: | FIFA listed |
Internationalrole1: | Referee |
Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar (Ukrainian: Мирослав Іванович Ступар; Russian: Мирослав Иванович Ступар; born August 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian retired footballer and football referee.
As a player, he was a goalkeeper and played for Spartak Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsk, FC Volyn Lutsk, Dinamo Khmelnytskyi, also for the FC Dynamo Kyiv reserves.
As a referee he officiated at about 150 matches of the Soviet Top League. Stupar twice refereed Soviet Cup finals (1979, 1981). He appeared 7 times in the Soviet annual best referees list.
He refereed the 1982 World Cup game in Valladolid, Spain, between France and Kuwait. France were leading 3-1 when their midfielder Alain Giresse broke through to score a fourth goal. The Kuwaiti players protested, claiming that they had stopped playing because they had heard a whistle from the crowd and thought it was the referee blowing. Stupar ended up disallowing Giresse's goal and the game resumed with a dropped-ball at the spot where it was believed the game stopped at the whistle. France ended up winning 4–1.