Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar ( uk, Мирослав Іванович Ступар; russian: Мирослав Иванович Ступар; born August 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian retired footballer and football referee.

Career

As a player, he was a goalkeeper and played for Spartak Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsk,

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, Dinamo Khmelnytskyi, also for the

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reserves. As a referee he officiated at about 150 matches of the

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. Stupar twice refereed

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finals (1979, 1981). He appeared 7 times in the Soviet annual best referees list. He refereed the

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game in

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, between

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and

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. France were leading 3-1 when their midfielder

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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

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at the spot where it was believed the game stopped at the whistle. France ended up winning 4–1.

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