Edwin Picon-Ackong

Edwin Sydney Picon-Ackong (born November 4, 1940) is a retired Mauritian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico between Iraq and Paraguay. This match caused controversy as Iraq's Ahmed Radhi scored a header from a corner just seconds after the whistle blew for half-time so it did not count. Picon-Ackong received a lot of criticism for blowing the whistle when Iraq had such a big goalscoring opportunity. Iraq ended up losing 1–0.^[1]

References

↑ LinguaSport - 1986 World Cup

Profile

Referees at the 1986 FIFA World Cup

AFC	Fallaj Al-Shanar Jamal Al Sharif Shizuo Takada

CAF	Ali Bin Nasser Edwin Picon-Ackong Idrissa Traoré

CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Antonio Márquez Ramírez David Socha Berny Ulloa Morera

CONMEBOL	Romualdo Arppi Filho Jesús Díaz Carlos Espósito Gabriel González José Luis Martínez Bazán Hernán Silva

OFC	Chris Bambridge

UEFA	Luigi Agnolin Horst Brummeier Valeri Butenko Vojtech Christov George Courtney André Daina Bogdan Dotchev Erik Fredriksson Ioan Igna Jan Keizer Siegfried Kirschen Lajos Németh Zoran Petrović Alexis Ponnet Joël Quiniou Volker Roth Victoriano Sánchez Arminio Carlos Silva Valente Alan Snoddy

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