Benito Archundia

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Benito Armando Archundia Téllez (born March 21, 1966) a Mexican, known as Benito Archundia, is a football referee. His first fixture as an international referee was the 1994 match between USA and Greece.

He has been a profesional referee since 1985 and his has had his FIFA referee permission since 1993.On December 18, 2005 he was the referee in the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship final match between São Paulo FC and Liverpool FC.

Archundia has made his first World Cup appearance in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and proved his worth by fairly successfully refereeing a total of five matches, equalling the most number of matches by an individual referee (along with Argentina's Horacio Elizondo). His final game was the semi-final between Germany and Italy, and he was widely praised for an excellent job in controlling the match, with just a handful of relatively minor errors throughout the 120 minutes of play. In general he has been the most lenient referee at the 2006 World Cup, giving out an average of only 3 cards per game (the lowest of any referee at the competition)^[1].

Besides being a referee, Benito is also a lawyer and an economist. He is considered to be the best mexican referee.