# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-picon-ackong
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:03:21.874Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-picon-ackong"
name: "Edwin Picon-Ackong"
slug: "edwin-picon-ackong"
description: "Edwin Sydney Picon-Ackong is a Mauritian who is a retired 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."
tagline: "Mauritian football referee"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1940-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             16.81034482758621
  historical:           6.138265333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B4%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD-%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Едвін Пікон-Аконг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "إدوين بيكون أكونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ادوين بيكون اكونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvin_Pikon-Akkonq"
    title: "Edvin Pikon-Akkonq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Picon-Ackong"
    title: "Edwin Picon-Ackong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Picon-Ackong"
    title: "Edwin Picon-Ackong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Picon-Ackong"
    title: "Edwin Picon-Ackong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527296"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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