
Hernando Buitrago was selected to officiate at the World Cup U-20 2007 in Canada and a month or so later at the u17 World Cup in Korea. And many more matches, see his pa...

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According to Colombian newspapers Imer Lemuel Machado Barrera is one of the best referees in his country. He used to work as a teacher in a school. He is a CONMEBOL cate...

Wilmar Roldán Pérez was born in Amalfi, a little town in Antioquía, Colombia, on January 24th 1980. He´s one of the biggest promises of the South-American referee sta...

Luis Sanchez comes from a little town in the Valle del Cauca, near Cali, he came into the FIFA panel in 2012 replacing his fellow country man Hector Parra.

Adrian Velez started refereeing in 1997 in the B league of Colombia. In 2004 he got his first match in the A league. He received his FIFA badge in 2011. He is a CONMEBOL...

Henry Agudelo Rios ws a FIFA referee for only one season: 1977/78.

When Colombian became a member of FIFA in 1950 they got 5 referees on the international panel: Alarca, Caicedo, Bonell, Sundheim and Coll Tara. Only those last two lasted...

Marco Tulio Amaya was a FIFA referee for two seasons: 1956/57 - 1957/58.

A FIFA referee from 1979 until the end of 1983. Ardila was a Referee for 20 years, his first high level match was in 1974, his last in 1986.

Gilberto Aristizabal Murcia took charge of one match in the 1982 World Cup finals. he was a FIFA referee from 1973 until 1967.

Wilmer Barahona was a FIFA referee for only two years: 2000 and 2001. He has been a professional referee from 1993 until 2007.

Carlos Alberto Betancur Castaneda was a FIFA referee during 2005 and 2006. He is still active nationally in 2011.

Alirio Blanquiceth Montoya was a FIFA referee from 1979 until 1988.

Humberto Bonell was a FIFA referee only during season 150/1951.

Salatiel Bonilla was a FIFA referee from 1962/63 until 1967.

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Mario Lorenzo Canessa Garcia was a long time FIFA referee from 1969 until 1983. Mario Canessa was born in Chile and moved to Colombia in 1963. Canessa featured on Marlbor...

A FIFA referee for only one season: 1977/78

Martiniano Castillo was a FIFA referee from season 1958/59 until 1962.

Modesto Castro was a FIFA referee from 1964/65 until 1967.

Henry Alfonso Cervantes Jimenez was a FIFA referee from 1999 until the end of 2004, when he was 45.

A FIFA referee from 1966/67 until 1975.

Together with four* others, Elias Coll Tara was part of the first Colombian FIFA referees in 1950. Coll Tara stayed on the FIFA panel until the end of season 1963/64.

For a two seasons a FIFA referee: 1966/67 - 1967/68.

Jesús Palacio Díaz refereed two matches at the World Cup 1986 in Mexico. FIFA ref from 1983 until 1989.

Albert Duarte was one of the most important Colombian referees from when he got his FIFA badge in 2004. After Oscar Ruiz he was the referee with the most matches in Colom...

Alberto Duque Osorio was a FIFA referee from 1996 until the end of 2007.

A FIFA referee for only two seasons: 1966/67 - 1967/68.

A FIFA referee from 1964/65 until 1967.

Mario Henao Gil appears on the FIFA lists only once, in 1961. He was from Medellin and may have been a FIFA assistant referee.

This Oscar Gomez (there are more) was a FIFA referee from 1968 until 1971.

A FIFA referee from 1991 until the end of 1994.

Analdo Gomez was a FIFA referee from 186 until 1989, but we haven't found any other information about him.

Jorge Hernán Hoyos Urrea was a FIFA referee of Colombia until 2007 when the Colombian Federation stopped backing him because of his "poor performances" He refereed 13 ye...

Julian Idarraga Salgado was a FIFA referee from 1997 until the end of 1999.

Carlos Eduardo Lopez Buitrago was a FIFA referee from 2000 until 2007.

Just one year and then Jose Lorenzo Lopez Acosta was gone from the FIFA list

A FIFA referee for only two seasons: 1965/66 - 1966/67.

Nel (sometimes written as Nell) Raul Lopez Morales was a FIFA referee from 1956 until 1965.

Luis Jesus Marin Patino was a FIFA refere from 1991 until the end of 1993. He now lives in Guatemala.

Ovidio Orrego was a FIFA referee from season 1956/57 until 1966/67.

Jose F Palacio Angel was a FIFA referee from 1984 until 1989. We haven't found any matches he took charge of in those 5 years.

Fernando Augusto Paneso Zuluaga a player who changed to refereeing in 1988. He was FIFA referee from 1994 until the end of 2005.

Hector Parra had to withdraw at the end of 2009, due to an injury and came back in 2011 and was off again. He was a CONMEBOL category 3 referee.

Francisco Penuela Fajardo quit at the end of 2010 after only three years as a FIFA referee.

The World Cup u16 in 1989, the World Cup u29 in 1993 and Armando Perez Hoyos was an assistant at the 1990 World Cup, the real one. And there was more, see his palmares.

Jorge Eliecer Ramírez Gomez became a referee in 1995. He received his FIFA badge in 2008 and lost it again at the end of that year.

Juan Sebastian Restrepo Lemus belongs to the new generation of Colombian referees, he is a good ref for the future, but needs to grow. At the end of 2012, without referee...

Roberto Rodriguez was a FIFA referee from 1966 until 1977.

Flavio Rojas Gonzalez was a FIFA referee during the years 1998 and 1999. Only two years in which he managed to reach the Copa Libertadores 8th finals. Rojas is a professi...

Saul Enrique de la Rosa was a FIFA referee from 162/63 until 1967.

Born in 1969 in the Colombian town of Villaviciencio (Meta province), Óscar Julian Ruiz Acosta grew up a son of a referee. He is a CONMEBOL Elite category referee. Ruiz ...

Filipe Eduardo Russi Paez, FIFA referee from 1994 until th end of 2003.

Rafael Sanabria was an international referee in 1995-1998 He refereed in the Copa America 1997 and in the Copa Libertadores 1994, 1997 and 19

A FIFA referee from 1958 until 1961

Pedro Julio Sanchez (a hard name to research) was a FIFA referee from season 1960/61 until 1963/64.

Orlando Arturo Sanchez Zuniga was a FIFA referee from 1977 until 1983.

Octavio Mesa, a long time FIFA referee from 1969 intil the end of 1989, was active for instance at the 1987 U20 World Cup where he took charge of one match.

In 2012 Ramiro Alberto Suarez Zuluga became one of the three new FIFA refs, he took the place of the best Colombian FIFA ref ever: Oscar Julian Ruiz. But, at the end of t...

The first ever Colombian referee to officiate at a World Cup finals (1962), albeit as a lines man, in two matches. Sundheim ws a FIFA referee from 1950 until the end of s...

John Toro Rendon officiated one match at the 1998 World Cup in France (and the 1991 women's World Cup)

Jose Joaquin Torres Cadena took charge of no less than 4 matches in the 1994 World Cup.

A FIFA referee for three seasons: 1966/67 - 1968/69.

Guillermo Ramírez Velásquez took charge of 4 matches in three consecutive Olympic tournaments ('68, '72 and '76). He was a linesman (4 matches) at the 1970 World Cup. L...

Jorge Eliecer Zuluaga Vasco. A FIFA referee for 5 years: 1990-1994.

A player for Boca Juniors Colombiano, a referee (FIFA, only one season: 1963/64) and the coach that took the Colombian team to the 1968 Olympic tournament. Edgar Barona d...

Omar Delgado Gomez Piedrahita took charge of one match in the 1974 World Cup finals. During that match (Zaire - Yugoslavia, a record breaking 0-9) he sent off the wrong p...

Mario Henao Gil was a FIFA referee for one season: 1957/58.

To our knowledge Jesus Maria Lires Lopez was not an international referee. But he was respected enough to be asked to officiate at 1956 the Little World Cup, a yearly tou...

A FIFA referee for only two seasons, 1958/59, 1959/60, but also a player, industrialist and manufacturer of a football called "Herida", first seen the light in 1935.

Hernando Vargas was a FIFA referee during season 1957/58.