It seems the referee who made so many bad calls against Italy when they played South Korea in the 2002 World Cup has been suspended for 20 games for manipulating an Ecuadorean league game. He added 13 minutes of extra time (while reporting the game lasted the regulation 90), enabling Liga de Quito to come from behind and win 4-3. Of course, he just happens to be running for City Council in Quito. Clearly, he doesn’t meet the bipartisan standard claimed by FIFA for the World Cup referees.
He was pretty bad in the Italy-South Korea match, but the ref for the Spain-South Korea match was even worse.
This is all quite reminiscent of the US vs. Russia Olympic basketball match where the referee added time to the clock until Russia finally scored to “beat” the US.
This hoorible ref for basketball is very mean, calls very bad calls. It would be nice if you would tal to im about this. Here is some information about him,
His number is 5 , older and my friend’s dad knows his nme so if you e-mail me back i will ell you his name. If you see him tell him “you know who i am” sent this. thanks. 1 more thing, today, 2/8/03 he was refering at Mariemont.Thanks