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Referee Marco Antonio Ortiz without a charge of conscience for the penalty in the last final

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By Edgardo Avelar

Jun 12, 2024, 8:44 PM EDT

Say it, but without saying it directly. Thus, precisely referee Marco Antonio Ortiz, He sent a message through a video on his Instagram account, where he shows that he neither suffers nor is distressed by the criticism that his work has received in the grand final of the last tournament, Clausura 2024, by scoring a penalty in favor of the America, which three weeks later remains a topic of controversy both for and against.

Indeed, in a short message written on his official account “gatillo_dgo”, he stated in a short written message that: ““You become INCREDIBLE when you work on what people can’t take away from you; your Mentality, your Character, your Habits, your Personality, your Values, your Authenticity, your Transparency, your beliefs, in short… YOUR ENTIRE BEING.”

Continuing with our TRANSPARENCY exercise from the Referees Commission, we share with you how the decision was made to score a penalty in the Cruz Azul area at minute 71, after the dispute for the ball between Reyes and Rotondi.

After the VAR recommendation of a… pic.twitter.com/n0TCZN4X2x

— Referees Commission (@Arbitraje_MX) May 27, 2024

In a few words, Ortiz wanted to express how he feels right now. After all the time that has passed and where he has been able to review and analyze his work in the definitive game between América vs. Cruz Azul and where the whistler scored a maximum penalty in the 72nd minute of the match in favor of the Águilas, which touched the most sensitive fibers of the Cruz Azul fans when they considered that they had made a mistake in their assessment of him.

While the América fans have given him their support, generating an unusual controversy for the work of the whistler, without him feeling affected according to all the details handled in his publication on his Instagram account.

The message was reinforced by a video made by the Referee Commission about all the events that occurred in that duel from the past May 26 at the Azteca Stadium, where you can see the preparation of the whistler and his personality to mark a foul that perhaps another Nazarene would not have dared to mark.

The reality of things is that the refereeing union and the directors of the Mexican Football Federation supported the actions of a referee who was questioned. for his attitudes that have generated an undisciplined image for the referee authorities.

He even revealed what he charged for carrying the final match of Clausura 2024, Being a FIFA badge since 2018, he won 40 thousand pesos for the final between América and Cruz Azul added to the 33 thousand pesos that he receives month after month, whether he has a job or not, And if we add the other 40 thousand for calling the Clásico Regio in the quarterfinals, we are talking about winning 113 thousand pesos in the month of May.

The exact moment when referee Marco Antonio Ortiz marked the foul by Argentine Carlos Rotondi on Israel Reyes as a penalty. Photo: Pablo Ramirez/Imago7.

Along with this publication, without a doubt, refereeing will continue to be the topic of discussion in football and in this case, it will always be up to the interpretation of the referee, since in the penalty action, it is clearly heard in the VAR that the play warranted review because it was not a forceful action, quite the opposite in the mind of the referee who decided to mark it as the penalty that decided the result.

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