Edwin Picon-Ackong
Mauritian football referee
Edwin Sydney Picon-Ackong (born November 4, 1940) is a retired Mauritian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico between Iraq and Paraguay. Some of the Iraqi team officials and players reacted angrily when Picon-Ackong blew the whistle for half time a few seconds before Iraq striker Ahmed Radhi headed the ball into the goal, meaning that it did not count.[1]
References
- ^ LinguaSport - 1986 World Cup
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Referees at the 1986 FIFA World Cup
- Fallaj Al-Shanar
- Jamal Al Sharif
- Shizuo Takada
- Ali Ben Nasser
- Edwin Picon-Ackong
- Idrissa Traoré
- Rómulo Méndez
- Antonio Márquez Ramírez
- David Socha
- Berny Ulloa Morera
- Romualdo Arppi Filho
- Jesús Díaz
- Carlos Espósito
- Gabriel González
- José Luis Martínez Bazan
- Hernán Silva
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