Arturo Brizio Carter (born 9 March 1956) is a Mexican former

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

referee. He is mostly known for supervising six matches in the

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internatio ...

, three each in

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. He gave seven red cards ( a record for the tournament) and 29 yellow cards in those six matches. He was the first referee to wear a coloured uniform in the World Cup.

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* * * * * 1956 births Sportspeople from Mexico City Mexican people of Italian descent Mexican people of English descent Mexican football referees Copa América referees Copa América finals match officials Living people 1994 FIFA World Cup referees 1998 FIFA World Cup referees CONCACAF Gold Cup referees Olympic football referees {{Sports-official-bio-stub