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 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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

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, three each in

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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 frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

. He gave seven red cards ( a record for the tournament) and 29

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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 FIFA World Cup referees Copa América referees Living people 1994 FIFA World Cup referees 1998 FIFA World Cup referees CONCACAF Gold Cup referees Olympic football referees {{Mexico-footy-bio-stub