Rómulo Méndez Molina (21 December 1938 – 6 January 2022) was a Guatemalan

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referee. He was the first Guatemalan referee ever to participate in

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finals, refereeing one match in the

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and one match in the

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edition. Méndez was born in

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on 21 December 1938. He died on 6 January 2022, at the age of 83.

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