The Referees Committee of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) decided to suspend the referee of the Argentina-Brazil match in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Qatar, Uruguayan Andres Ismael Konia Soca “indefinitely”.
The committee also decided to ban the referee of the Brazil-Colombia match, Chilean Roberto Andres Tobar Vargas.
The decision to stop the referee of the Argentina-Brazil match, which was held last Tuesday, came because Konya and the referee of the mouse technique Esteban Daniel Ostokhic Beja committed “serious and clear mistakes in the exercise of their functions in the course of the match.”
The committee indicated that the Argentine defender, Nicolas Otamendi, kicked the Brazilian Rafinha in the 33rd minute, which led to a torrent of blood from the mouth, but the referee did not punish him, and the referee ignored the incident.
