Codesal rules out injustice in the appointment of Katia Itzel García to the 2026 World Cup

Edgardo Codesal, experienced former international and World Cup refereeas well as a referee leader in Mexican soccer, assured yesterday that the appointment of referee Katia Itzel García is by no means unfairby complying with all the parameters required by the FIFAin addition to the fact that the choice of the Mexican whistler was due to the fact that this organization wanted to send the message that they do not discriminate.

In an interview with La Opinión, Codesal explained that the appointment of Katia Itzel was something logical that was expected and that he was not surprised by the merits he has garnered in a short, but brilliant career in arbitration.

“To think that it is logical; it is what has been handled. Katia has been growing a lot in refereeing, she has even been in the U-20 World Cup and he has an already important career in football. About Caesar, it seems to me that Caesar is more than sung. Maybe there was controversy at some point about whether it could also be, eh, Marco, but really, eh, the designation seems to me to be almost certain that César was going to go and what’s more, in my prediction, it seems to me that César is the great candidate for the final., he highlighted.

Codesal also said about Katia Itzel and her performance on the field of play that led her to the 2026 World Cup as one of the 52 World Cup central referees: “She is good, she is good as a referee, that is without a doubt, and she has had a few matches in first class.in the men’s first division, and has done so with solvency. Now, yes, I think that gender weighs a lot and now the other way around, which is what the ladies who couldn’t enter complained much before; Well, now I think that they do leave Marco, they leave him out with much more experience, and much more experience in international matches.”

The former international whistler also pointed out that the argument for Marco Antonio Ortiz not to be appointed and Katia Itzel García appearing in her place was the sanction of Concacaf about the Aztec whistler when he asked international star Lionel Messi for the shirt.

“Marco had an important punishment, and things off the field, eh, like the thing about Messi’s shirt, Anyway, all that, eh, it seems not, but it also influences FIFA a lot, but I feel that the criterion of, well, we are going to bring ladies, we are going to show, eh, that we are open, that we do not discriminate and all that stuff that is being handled lately.

“I think that, and being in FIFA I even said it many times, here it is not a question of gender, it is a question of capabilities, of trajectories, of capabilities, of solvency on the field, etc. And Katia’s thing on a men’s level is a totally new experience, eh, that is being done; It was done in the last World Cup and what happened? They were given only one game.

“Practically a match that did not have much significance within the results for a World Cup, But with that they already fulfilled that they do not do gender discrimination, right? Marco’s career historically within the years that he has already had in arbitration, eh, he had much more experience, as we said. Eh, I don’t see it from a work point of view. TOHere are sporting abilities and technical abilities to be able to be there. “She passes the medical exams and passes the physical exams that FIFA requires for men,” ended.

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