Francisco Oscar ''Pancho'' Lamolina (born October 25, 1950). is a former

football (soccer) 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 from

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. He was an official at

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. He was known in

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for his ''

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'' style into the field, completely opposed to the strictness of

Javier Castrilli Javier Castrilli (born May 22, 1957) is a former football referee from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He worked as a referee from 1980 to 1998, earning the nickname ''El Sheriff'' due to his character and decisions on the field by strictly imposing ...

's. Even though he was highly regarded in the 1980s, towards the end of his career he was criticized for his style, that allowed much rudeness to go unpunished. His classic gesture was to simulate pushing a cart to suggest movement, sometimes (allegedly) accompanied by his saying ''siga, siga''Francisco Lamolina at WorldReferee.com
/ref> ("go on, go on"), which became a derogatory way of making allusion to this school of refereeing.

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* Argentine football referees Living people 1950 births FIFA World Cup referees Copa América referees Place of birth missing (living people) 1994 FIFA World Cup referees {{Argentina-footy-bio-stub