Jesús Díaz (football referee)

Colombian football referee In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Díaz and the second or maternal family name is Palacio.

Jesús Díaz Palacio (born October 16, 1954) is a retired Colombian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. One of the matches, Iraq versus Belgium, caused controversy as Díaz gave a yellow card to Iraq's Basil Gorgis in a case of mistaken identity (the yellow was supposed to be given to Ghanim Oraibi) while the score was 2–0 to Belgium. Gorgis sarcastically applauded Díaz's incorrect decision which led to Gorgis getting sent off and Iraq lost 2–1.

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MEXICO 86: IRAQ’S WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN, WHERE LUCK MET FATE (PART THREE)

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v t e Referees at the 1986 FIFA World Cup
AFC	Fallaj Al-Shanar Jamal Al Sharif Shizuo Takada
CAF	Ali Ben Nasser Edwin Picon-Ackong Idrissa Traoré
CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Antonio Márquez Ramírez David Socha Berny Ulloa Morera
CONMEBOL	Romualdo Arppi Filho Jesús Díaz Carlos Espósito Gabriel González José Luis Martínez Bazán Hernán Silva
OFC	Chris Bambridge
UEFA	Luigi Agnolin Horst Brummeier Valeri Butenko Vojtech Christov George Courtney André Daina Bogdan Dochev Erik Fredriksson Ioan Igna Jan Keizer Siegfried Kirschen Lajos Németh Zoran Petrović Alexis Ponnet Joël Quiniou Volker Roth Victoriano Sánchez Arminio Carlos Silva Valente Alan Snoddy

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