# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/angel-sanchez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:06:00.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/angel-sanchez"
name: "Ángel Sánchez"
slug: "angel-sanchez"
description: "Ángel Sánchez is a former association football referee from Argentina, best known for supervising two matches during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The latter fixture became noted as Sánchez was hit in the stomach by Portuguese forward João Pinto after Sánchez gave Pinto a red card for a tackle on Park Ji-sung, who scored the match's only goal to eliminate Portugal from the group stage."
tagline: "Argentine football referee"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
birthDate: "1957-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             1.69811320754717
  historical:           8.551189333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez_(%C3%A1rbitro)"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez (árbitro)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85)"
    title: "أنخيل سانشيز (حكم كرة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86)"
    title: "انخيل سانشيز (حكم كورة قدم من ارجنتين)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez_(referee)"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez (referee)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez_(%C3%A1rbitro)"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez (árbitro)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez_(arbitre)"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez (arbitre)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez_(j%C3%A1t%C3%A9kvezet%C5%91)"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez (játékvezető)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez_(fotballdommer)"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez (fotballdommer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_S%C3%A1nchez"
    title: "Ángel Sánchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946553"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump