Sören Storks (born 9 November 1988) is a German

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

referee who is based in

Velen Velen is a town in the district Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with about 12,000 citizens. It consists of the two settlements of Velen and Ramsdorf and the four rural regions Ostendorf-Krueckling, Bleking-Holthausen, Nordvelen and Wald ...

. He referees for VfL Ramsdorf of the

Westphalian Football and Athletics Association The Westphalia Football and Athletics Association (german: Fußball- und Leichtathletikverband Westfalen, FLVW) is the umbrella organization of football and athletics clubs in the German Westphalia area, and comprises 29 districts. The FLVW was cre ...

Refereeing career

Storks, referee of the club VfL Ramsdorf, has officiated on the DFB level since 2013. He began officiating in the

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...

for the 2012–13 season, refereeing his first match between Rot-Weiß Erfurt and VfB Stuttgart II on 7 August 2012. After three years, Jablonski was nominated as referee for the 2015–16 season of the

2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...

, refereeing his first match between FSV Frankfurt and FC St. Pauli on 30 August 2015. In 2017, Storks was one of four referees promoted to officiate in the Bundesliga for the 2017–18 season.

Personal life

Storks lives in

, where he works as a

carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. ...

References

External links

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