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Horacio Marcelo Elizondo (born November 4 ,1963, in Quilmes) is an Argentine international football referee, who was designated to represent Argentina in the

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Elizondo finished his studies in physical education, and started refereeing after finishing the AFA course. His debute in the Argentine first division was in the Deportivo Español-Belgrano de Córdoba match in 1992. He was named international in 1994, and directed his first international match on October 9 1994 between Ecuador and Colombia for the 1998 world cup qualifications.

Among the several international competitions of which he participated are the Copa América of 1997 and 1999), the U-17 world Cup of 1997 and 2005, the U-20 World Youth Championship of 2003 and 2005, the Olympic Games of 2004, and the FIFA Club World Championship of 2000. In the later, he shower a red card to David Beckham in the tie on one goal between Manchester United and Necaxa.

He also refereed in the final matches of the 2002 and 2005 Copa Libertadores de América. In the 2005 edition the two Brazilian finalist teams São Paulo FC and Atlético Paranaense solicitated the Conmebol to have Elizondo as the main referee.

In the annual world referee ranking of the IFFHS, Elizondo was positioned 5th in 2001, and 12th in 2005.

References

  1. Prensa Latina - "Elizondo representará al arbitraje argentino". Last accessed on June 1 2006.
  2. FIFA - 'Horacio Elizondo: “Referees need to be clinical'". Last accessed on June 1 2006.
  3. CONMEBOL - "Horacio Elizondo: 'Es vital para el réferi conocer bien a sus colaboradores'". Last accessed on June 1 2006.
  4. BBC news - "Beckham off in Man Utd epic". Last accessed on June 1 2006.
  5. RSSSF - "IFFHS' World's Best Referee of the Year 1987-2004". Last accessed on June 1 2006.
  6. IFFHS - "The World's best Referee 2005". Last accessed on June 1 2006.
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