| Héctor Walter Baldassi (born 5 January 1966) is an Argentine retired football referee and politician. His first Argentine first division was in 1998 and only two years later he debuted internationally. Nicknamed La Coneja (Spanish for "the she-rabbit"), Baldassi officiated several CONMEBOL club competitions including the final match of the 2008 Copa Libertadores (with a critical performance that had a direct impact on the final result of the match), and participated in several international competitions including the 2004 Copa América and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He was called for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup but was later dismissed because one of his assistants didn't pass the medical tests.
Despite his errors against Brazilian soccer teams in 2008 Libertadores da América, he was preselected as a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, officiating his first World Cup match in Ghana's 1–0 win over Serbia on 13 June 2010. Then, he officiated Netherlands 1-0 win over Japan.
In 2013, he was elected to be a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, representing his home province of Córdoba for the Republican Proposal (PRO) party. He was re-elected in 2017. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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guest 190.209.191.154 17-Nov-09 17:44
Sr Baldassi tengo que decirle que pertenezco a una asociacionde arbitros de Chile y soy un admirador suyo. Eso si, pienso que se perdio una buena oportunidad el otro dia en la entrevista del foxsport, para decirle por intermedio de ese programa a TODOS los periodistas del futbol, que con su ignorancia, son ellos los que predisponen a la critica erronea y malintencionada del pobre y sufrido hincha que no tiene idea siquiera que esta sancionando un arbitro cuando lo hace. Por lo tanto siga en su rumbo. Tambien vi cuando dirigio al Flu y al igual que usted coincido en que la decision de sancionar o no el supuesto penal, solo la decide usted en la fraccion de segundos, y no los periodistas despues de haber revisado la jugada 50 veces en la pantalla y desde todos los angulos.
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