Ramón Ivanoes Barreto Ruiz (14 September 1939 – 4 April 2015) was a Uruguayan professional
association football referee
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. He is the only referee in the history of the
FIFA World Cup to have been appointed to two consecutive Final matches: in 1974 in
Munich, and in 1978 in
Buenos Aires
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.
Barreto was first selected as a World Cup Finals referee in Germany. There he was given charge of the highly publicised fixture between
East Germany and
West Germany in
Hamburg. Besides the two World Cups, Barreto is notable in England as the man who sent off
Trevor Cherry
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...
in the game between England and Argentina at the
Bombonera during England's tour of South America in 1977. He was also an official at the
1975 Copa América
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and at the
1976 Olympics.
Barreto was selected for his second World Cup in 1978 in Argentina. It was there that he was appointed match referee for the repeat of the 1974 Final between West Germany and the
Netherlands.
Planet World Cup – 1978 – Second Phase – Group 1 – West Germany v Netherlands
/ref> Thereafter he was selected to represent his country in the final game between Argentina and the Netherlands, in which he ran the line to Sergio Gonella
Sergio Gonella (; 23 May 1933 – 19 June 2018) was an Italian bank manager and association football referee.
He was the first ever Italian appointed to referee the final of the FIFA World Cup which occurred when he took charge of the 1978 fina ...
, the first Italian ever to referee the final.
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1939 births
2015 deaths
Copa América referees
Olympic football referees
FIFA World Cup referees
Uruguayan football referees
FIFA World Cup Final match officials
1978 FIFA World Cup referees
1974 FIFA World Cup referees
1970 FIFA World Cup referees
Sportspeople from Montevideo
Burials at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo