Ángel Sánchez (referee)

Ángel Sánchez (born March 3, 1957) is a former association football 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 fixture became noted as Sánchez was hit in the stomach by Portuguese forward João Pinto after Sánchez gave Pinto a red card for a tackle on Park Ji-sung, who scored the match's only goal to eliminate Portugal from the group stage.^[1]

Ángel Sánchez

Full name	Ángel Osvaldo Sánchez
Born	(1957-03-03) 3 March 1957 (age 68) Argentina
Years		Role
1982–2006		Referee
		Referee
International
Years	League	Role
	FIFA listed	Referee

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