Alberto Tejada Noriega
Alberto Tejada Noriega (born November 11, 1956 in Lima ) is a Peruvian politician . He has been Minister for Health since July 28, 2011. The doctor of medicine previously worked as a FIFA referee until 2003 .
biography
Tejada was born in Lima, the capital of Peru, and is the son of former FIFA referee Alberto Tejada Burga . After graduating from school, he studied medicine at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos . In 1983 he then whistled a game for the first time in the first Peruvian division . He was finally appointed FIFA referee in the late 1980s. The first major game he whistled in this role was the decisive World Cup qualifier between Brazil and Uruguay in 1993 . He was nominated as referee for the following World Cup in 1994 in the USA and whistled two group stage games with Cameroon against Sweden and Morocco against Netherlands . In the same year he also directed games in the Japanese J. League . With the nomination for the 1998 World Cup in France , four years later, his second World Cup participation followed. This time, however, he was only allowed to whistle one game with the game Yugoslavia against Iran . Thus, in his entire career, he has participated twice in a World Cup (1994, 1998) and twice in the Copa America ( 1993 , 1995 ).
In 2003 he ended his career as a referee and began to become increasingly involved in politics. In the same year he was elected mayor of the San Borja district of the Lima province . He held this office until 2010, a total of seven years. After resigning from this office, he applied for the chairmanship of the Peruvian Football Association , but lost to the current President Manuel Burga in the election. Therefore, he went back into politics and was appointed Minister of Health in 2011 under the new President Ollanta Humala .
Web links
- Alberto Tejada Noriega in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile on worldreferee.com
- Profile on the homepage of the Ministry of Health ( Memento from October 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tejada Noriega, Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian politician, football referee, medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima , Peru |