By Edgardo Avelar
After all the criticism for the low level of the referees in the league for the title, the Referees Commission He decided to use his best card, César Arturo Ramos, for the duel between Chivas against Cruz Azul and Daniel Quintero for the meeting Cougars against Pachuca.
Aware of the last minute change they decided to make to remove Luis Enrique Santander from the play, who had had a poor job in the América against Pumas in the quarterfinals and place Ismael Rosario López for Pachuca against Pumasgenerated endless criticism and suspicions about the true impartiality of the Nazarenes in defining the champion title.
For this reason, the Commission chaired, from the administrative aspect, by Juan Manuel Herrero and from the technical aspect by Horacio Elizondo, decided to use their two strong cards as Ramos Palazuelos and Daniel Quintero, waiting for the controversies on the field to end.
It should be noted that the high command of the whistlers decided to freeze Adonai Escobedo, Marco Antonio “Gato” Ortiz, and Katia Itzel García, due to several failures such as the one committed by the World Cup whistler in the duel between Cruz Azul against Atlas when he stopped scoring a penalty against Cruz Azul due to a deliberate handball by Amaury García.
Under this panorama, the Referees Commission hopes to have a better perspective to emerge successfully from the semi-final commitment, where Chivas raised their hand during the championship that allowed them to have a great season and who now depend on Cruz Azul to move forward to the grand final.
César Arturo Ramos was appointed for Chivas against Cruz Azul, accompanied by his World Cup collaborators such as Alberto Morín and Edgar Castrejón, as well as Fernando Hernández as fourth referee; Erick Yair Miranda and AVAR Michel Caballero were chosen as VAR.
⚽😎 ~ César Ramos will lead the refereeing in the Liga MX Semifinals
The @LigaBBVAMX revealed the referee appointments for the Second Leg matches of the Clausura 2026 Semifinals, matches that will define the finalist teams in Mexican soccer and that arrive… pic.twitter.com/LnZLFoBqjJ
— El Valle (@elvallemexico) May possibly presumably perhaps 16, 2026
While for Pumas against Pachuca Daniel Quintero was appointed with the support of Enrique Issac Bustos and Leonardo Castillo, while the fourth referee will be Katia Itzel García, VAR Diana Pérez and AVAR Salvador Pérez, trying to lower the decibels of the protests against the refereeing in the league.
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