Alejandro Otero (policeman)

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Alejandro Otero (* 1930 or 1931 ; † August 13, 2013 ) was a Uruguayan policeman and football referee.

Otero was born the son of a taxi driver and a teacher. In the 1960s he was head of the Inteligencia policial coordinator of the fight against the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional - Tupamaros (MLN-T). In addition, during his professional career he was director of the Escuela Nacional de Policía , the national police school, and deputy head of the Canelones Police Department . He also gained fame as a football referee. As such, he led, among other things, the match between the Copa Libertadores 1971 of the Boca Juniors against the Peruvian club Sporting Cristal . He put no fewer than 19 players off the field in the Bombonera after a mass brawl. In 2009 Otero was a member of the election campaign team for presidential candidate Jorge Larrañaga . Otero died at the age of 82.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comisario que derrotó a tupamaros asesora a Larrañaga (Spanish) on www.180.com.uy of April 27, 2009, accessed on March 7, 2014
  2. ↑ Fallció el comisario Alejandro Otero ( Memento of the original of March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El País, August 14, 2013, accessed March 7, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elpais.com.uy
personal data
SURNAME Otero, Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan policeman and football referee
DATE OF BIRTH 1930 or 1931
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2013