Héctor Baldassi

Héctor Walter Baldassi (Río Ceballos, 5 January 1966) is an Argentine former referee in the football (soccer) clubs. In 1998 he refereed his first match in the Primera División Argentinaand led his first international on 25 July 2000, Venezuela-Chile. [1]  he was head referee during matches to the Copa América 2004, Copa Sudamericana 2006 and Copa Libertadores 2008.

At the global level was Baldassi active in the 2007 u-20 WORLD CUP, the 2008 Summer Olympics, the WORLD CUP under 20-2009 and the 2010 World Cup. [2]  On the World Championship of 2010 he was in charge of the group matches Serbia-Ghana (0-1, five yellow cards, one penalty kick), Netherlands-Japan (1-0, one yellow card) and Switzerland-Honduras (0-0, five yellow cards). In addition he whistled round of 16 Spain-Portugal (1-0, two yellow cards).

Baldassi whistled his last international match on 11 november 2011, the World Cup qualifier Uruguay-Chile (4-0) in Montevideo.