Kevin Ortega

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Kevin Ortega
Full name Kevin Ortega Pimentel
Born (1992-03-26) 26 March 1992 (age 32)
Callao, Peru
Domestic
YearsLeagueRole
2015– Peruvian Primera División Referee
International
YearsLeagueRole
2019– FIFA Referee
CONMEBOL Referee

Kevin Ortega Pimentel (born 26 March 1992) is a Peruvian football referee who is a listed international referee for FIFA since 2019. He has also been officiating matches in the Peruvian Primera División since 2015. Ortega is one of the youngest referees in the Peruvian Football Federation. [1]

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Refereeing career

He worked in SUNAT from 2014 to 2015. [2] On 12 May 2015, Ortega made his debut in the Primera División, the highest Peruvian division, at the age of 23. During the game between Unión Comercio and Alianza Atlético (5–2), he drew the yellow card twice. [3] Ortega has also been regularly used in the South American club competitions, the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana.

International

Ortega became an international referee on the FIFA list in 2019. [4] He made his international debut in March 2019 in a match at the 2019 South American U-17 Championship between Argentina and Colombia. He was summoned to officiate a match in November of that year in a friendly between Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2021, FIFA nominated Ortega for the 2020 Summer Olympics Football Tournament in Tokyo, where he featured in three games including the semi-final. [5] In May 2022, Ortega was appointed in the 36 referee squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. [6] [7] He was accompanied by his assistants Michael Orué and Jesús Sánchez. [6]

Controversies

At the Copa Libertadores game between Club Always Ready from Bolivia and Boca Juniors from Argentina in May 2022, he was at the center of a controversy. Boca Juniors won the game 1–0 on a controversial penalty, after which the Bolivian police searched the referee's booth and seized several Boca Junior shirts that had been given to the referee team before the game. Always Ready representatives accused Ortega of taking advantage, while Boca Juniors stated that the gifts were a standard gesture. [8]

Ortega received additional criticism during the 2024 Copa America match between the United States and Uruguay. [9] The match was Ortega's first at the tournament as a center referee. Ortega made several contentious calls, including playing an advantage for Uruguay while still issuing a yellow card to Chris Richards and allowing a controversial goal that was believed offside, leading to the United States early elimination from the tournament. [10] [11] [12]

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  2. ↑ "Unete Sunat - Unete a la Sunat". unete.sunat.gob.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 November 2020.[ failed verification ]
  3. ↑ Wedstrijdgegevens Unión Comercio – Alianza Atlético bij Voetbal.com
  4. ↑ 2022 Refereeing International Lists FIFA
  5. ↑ "List of the match officials for the Olympic Football Tournaments Tokyo 2020" (PDF). FIFA.com. 23 April 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  6. 1 2 List of appointed FIFA Match Officials FIFA
  7. ↑ "Kevin Ortega, el árbitro peruano preseleccionado para dirigir el Mundial Catar 2022". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  8. ↑ López, Eduardo; Allen, William (1 July 2024). "Who is Kevin Ortega, the referee for USMNT - Uruguay at the Copa América today?". Diario AS. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
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