Referee who ‘stabbed’ America in Concachampions in Panama-Mexico

Mexico will face this Wednesday a Panama in visiting territory and one of the details that draws attention to this duel of Qualifying World Cup Round to Qatar 2022, Is that the whistle that will be in charge is a controversial judge, who once ‘stabbed’ America in Concachampions.

This is Mario Escobar (Guatemala), who will be the central referee, accompanied by Caleb Wales (Trinidad and Tobago), as Assistant 1; Henry Pupiro (Nicaragua), Assistant 2 and Bryan López (Guatemala) will be the fourth official.

The Mexican liking to soccer does not forget its name, especially the fans of the azulcremas, since when the First leg of the Quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League, les eagles they were already taking the win over Portland, but suddenly in time of compensation he scored a non-existent penalty and not even the VAR used.

This decision cost him his victory in America, the duel concluded 1-1 when concretizing the maximum penalty, in addition that in the party pardoned two red ones to players of Timbers.

However, not all Mexicans did badly, as Tigers had the Concachampions final against LAFC with Escobar as central, and the university students took the title and is thus the current champion.

The Mexican National Team already won the title with Escobar

Mexico recently in July won 3-0 a Honduras, Besides won the 2019 Gold Cup title against the United States having him as central referee; the only thing he lost was with Croatia in a friendly held in 2018.

Controversy in Guatemala

In 2017, Escobar a Guatemala’s First Division allowed a fourth overtime change, Which was banned even though FIFA endorsed it; he was suspended four times.