André Daina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Swiss football referee
Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1940
Place of Birth: Buttes, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Profession: association football manager, association football referee, association football player
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About André Daina
- André Daina (born 8 July 1940 in Esclepens) is a retired Swiss football referee.
- He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
- He also refereed one match in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship in France.
- He refereed a European Cup semi-final leg in 1984 and the European Cup final in 1985.
- He was heavily criticised for his appalling officiating of the European Cup Final in 1985 when he awarded a penalty to Zbigniew Boniek of Juventus who was fouled two metres outside of the Liverpool penalty area.
- He then failed to award Liverpool a penalty kick late on in the match when Ronnie Whelan was recklessly fouled by Massimo Bonini in the Juventus penalty box because of UEFA orders that Liverpool couldn’t win the match after the tragedy that had occurred before kick off.
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