Márcio Rezende de Freitas (born December 22, 1960 in

Timóteo Timóteo is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, located by the Piracicaba River. The population as of 2020 was 90,568 inhabitants. The city is situated in the metropolitan area of the Steel Valley (Vale do Aço). It is the homet ...

) is a former

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian football (soccer) referee. He has refereed more than 1100 games, 269 of these in national championships, between 1989 and 2005. He was present in the World Championship and at the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

. He was considered, in 2004, one of the 10 best referees in the universe.
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1960 births Living people People from Minas Gerais Brazilian football referees FIFA World Cup referees Copa América referees Olympic football referees 1998 FIFA World Cup referees Place of birth missing (living people) {{Brazil-footy-bio-stub