Ángel Sánchez (referee)

Ángel Sánchez (born March 3, 1957) is a former football (soccer) referee from Argentina, best known for supervising two matches (South Africa–Slovenia and Portugal–South Korea) during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The latter game became noted as Sánchez was hit in the stomach by Portuguese attacker João Pinto after Sánchez gave Pinto a red card for a brutal tackle against Park Ji-Sung.

Sánchez's official first division debut was in 1982; he retired in 2006.

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Referees at the 2002 FIFA World Cup

AFC	Ali Bujsaim Toru Kamikawa Kim Young-joo Lu Jun Saad Mane

CAF	Gamal Al-Ghandour Mourad Daami Mohamed Guezzaz Falla N'Doye

CONCACAF	Carlos Batres Brian Hall William Mattus Peter Prendergast Felipe Ramos

CONMEBOL	Ubaldo Aquino Byron Moreno René Ortubé Óscar Ruiz Ángel Sánchez Carlos Eugênio Simon

OFC	Mark Shield

UEFA	Pierluigi Collina Hugh Dallas Anders Frisk Terje Hauge Antonio López Nieto Urs Meier Vítor Melo Pereira Markus Merk Ľuboš Micheľ Kim Milton Nielsen Graham Poll Kyros Vassaras Gilles Veissière Jan Wegereef

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