Jorge Larrionda

Jorge Luis Larrionda Pietrafesa (born March 9, 1968 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan football referee .

He has whistled in the top division of Uruguay since 1993, and Larrionda has been a FIFA referee since 1998 . He directed his first international match ( Chile against Bolivia ) on June 20, 1999.

At the Football World Cup 2006 Larrionda was one of the 21 established referees. He was the fourth referee to eject three players in a World Cup game. On June 17, 2006, in the preliminary round match between Italy and the United States, he showed the Italian Daniele De Rossi and the American Pablo Mastroeni the red card and the American Eddie Pope the yellow-red card . He also whistled the games Angola against Portugal and Togo against France . On July 5, 2006, he directed the semi-final match between Portugal and France.

In 2009 Larrionda took part in the Confederations Cup as a referee . At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he led four games: Australia against Serbia , Cameroon against Denmark , Ivory Coast against Portugal and the last 16 between Germany and England .

In the latter, Larrionda denied the English a regular goal in the first half when a shot by Frank Lampard jumped from the crossbar behind the goal line. At this point the goal would have meant the 2: 2; Germany then won 4-1. In the German media the incident was described as "revenge for Wembley ". After this game Larrionda was no longer used in the tournament. The incident renewed the discussion about technical aids such as the chip ball in football.

Larrionda has been a member of the FIFA Referees Committee since retiring as a referee in 2012.

Larrionda lives in Montevideo and works full-time as an accountant . In his spare time he breeds parrots .

Tournaments

• Copa America 2001 in Colombia (2 appearances)
• Confederations Cup 2003 in France (3 appearances)
• 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens (3 appearances)
• U-17 World Cup 2005 in Peru (3 appearances)
• Junior World Cup 2005 in the Netherlands (4 appearances)
• Football World Cup 2006 in Germany (4 appearances)
• Copa América 2007 in Venezuela (3 appearances)
• Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa (4 appearances)

Web links

• Profile on FIFA.com ( Memento of May 30, 2009 on the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welt online (accessed on July 11, 2010)
2. ^ Wiener Zeitung : And Fifa is still moving , June 29, 2010 (accessed on November 28, 2013)
3. ↑ Larrionda, el elegido (Spanish) at www.embajadoresdelgol.com of June 12, 2014, accessed on July 6, 2014
4. ↑ BZ : Buchhalter whistles Germany-England , June 25, 2010 (accessed on July 16, 2014)