Lucílio Batista

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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-90s. Amongst his many games in the national territory, he was in charge for the controversial League Cup final between Lisbon neighbours S.L. Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal, in March 2009.[1]

Internationally, he refereed two matches at the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, on home soil.[2] 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.[3] He retired from the game at the end of the 2009–10 season.

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