Arturo Brizio Carter
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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
FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...
, 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
yellow cards Yellow card may refer to: * Yellow card (sport), shown in many sports after a rules infraction or, by analogy, a serious warning in other areas * Yellowcard, an American alternative rock band * Yellow Card Scheme, a United Kingdom initiative conce ...
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