Arturo Angeles

Arturo Angeles (born September 12, 1953) is a retired soccer referee from the United States. He supervised one match (Argentina–Greece) during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in his native country.

Angeles was born in Mexico City.^[1] Whilst studying engineering at the University of Southern California he played for the university team as a goalkeeper.^[1] He later became a civil engineer and worked for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power whilst living in Temple City, California.^[1][2]

He began refereeing in 1973, starting in the high school leagues. He joined the U.S. Soccer Federation referee programme in 1975, and moved up to the North American Soccer League.^[3] He was awarded his FIFA badge on January 1, 1988.^[1] He refereed at the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship in Saudi Arabia, refereeing the match between Argentina and Norway.^[4] In 1990, he was added to FIFA's list of potential referees for the 1994 World Cup, and was eventually among the final 24 selected.^[1] He refereed two matches at the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup, two matches at the 1992 Summer Olympics and one match at the 1993 Copa America.^[1]

In the build-up to the 1994 World Cup, Angeles was forced to prepare alone as the United States did not have a national league at the time; he joined a running club and refereed friendly international matches in Los Angeles.^[5] He later refereed in the new Major League Soccer, and was selected as the referee for the 1998 U.S. Open Cup Final.^[6] He retired in 2008.^[3]

• Arturo Angeles at WeltFussball.de at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007) (in German)
• Arturo Angeles referee profile at WorldFootball.net
• Arturo Angeles referee profile at Soccerway
• Arturo Angeles at WorldReferee.com