The first time Yael Falcón Pérez He was on everyone’s lips, anyone would have taken a step forward to defend him. It was a July afternoon in 2017 when he did everything right: he was the referee of the first final between San Miguel y UNITED DEFENSORS OF ZÁRATEby the reduced of the First c. After a shock of heads, the defender of the West team Isaiah is the Oriaga. He was lying on the floor and convulsed.
The referee, Professor of Physical Education and Professional Lifeguard several seasons on the beaches of San Bernardo, practiced first aid. “He saved his life”the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) synthesized in a statement that mentioned it as “hero”. Then, he got into the ambulance with the footballer and accompanied the mother in the hospital.
There was never a better talked about an referee as on that occasion. No one would have thought of doing the ‘Nacho’ Vázquez, to take his eyes on the draw before the penalties. He despised his look with the monumental (and the foreground of TV) as witnesses.
Is that, after his speech at that final of the first C, his fate changed. The newly assumed president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapiahe followed his career closely, which had a vertiginous rhythm. The national director of arbitration, Federico Beligoyit was appointed a good number of matches in the first B, eight in the national B and from there direct to the Super League, how it was called the First Division then.
Very soon those scenarios of the ascent and Falcón Pérez were far away, it became an international referee. In a few days he will add to his experience, which has matches in the South American Cups, Libertadores and Saudi Arabia, Participation in the Club World Cup as the only Argentine main judge.
The time of Olariaga, Falcón Pérez was repeated in interviews of all kinds. Instead, the day after the monumental, when he accumulated so many mistakes that became inocable, His silence was remarkable. The ‘Calamar’ players themselves, who at first increased him to the edge of hostility, ended up speaking in his name, revealing that after the Falcón Pérez party he had referred to, at least, one or two controversies, according to the interlocutor.
“I didn’t look at him, I was very hot, I ended up very hot and altered. When the game ended, he looked me in the eye and said: ‘Nacho, forgive me. I swear to you for my son that never … it was lateral for you, I ask you a thousand apologies.'”reported for TV Ignacio Vázquezthe captain who preferred to look at a fixed point in the Monumental, about the referee’s mea fault after the game.
The played play was in the fateful minutes of added, when Zapiola tried an advance and Martínez Quarta diverted the ball that came out by the band. It was lateral for the squid, but the serve of Hands was River. Then, the prison transformed into the Millionaire goal, which stretched the definition in the twelve steps.
The archer realized that same Juan Pablo Cozzani immediately after the penalty series. “Yael apologized. I told him that it was not so much about him, but of the room (referee), who was closer. He apologized for his children for the side, which was ours, it was already, but I felt a very big injustice”said the goalkeeper, who refers, not to mention it, Sebastián MartínezBeligoy’s nephew and in charge of control of substitutes.
Anyway, Falcón Pérez’s night will not only be remembered by that side. He was very wrong to the point that seemed to favor River, but also gave Platense advantage, which took the game quite a lot and could end 10 players when Ignacio Schor -What converted the decisive prison of the classification- He went very up with his leg against Paulo Díaz and took a yellow. He should also have seen the warning Marcos Acuña for a iron to Fernando Juárez for the second time and even the Mastantuono play was reviewed in an ‘invisible’ var ‘with Mauro Vigliano.
The list of Falcón Pérez’s mistakes only in one game seems endless. The image that was repeated in memes of the referee that seems to help Mastantuono to play, instead of expelling him, or his face when from the VAR they told him that Franco Armani had advanced And the shot should be repeated, WhatsApp groups encouraged.
Yael Falcón Pérez was on everyone’s lips again. He ceased to be the superhero capable of saving lives and was close to being the villain of the film. Platense soccer players seem to have accepted the apologies. In silence, he appreciates the messages of support of the referees who comfort him.