Fedefut dispenses with José Luis Camargo in the midst of the Guatemalan arbitration crisis

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March 28, 2025March 28, 2025By Mario Vásquez
Fedefut dispenses with José Luis Camargo in the midst of the Guatemalan arbitration crisis

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The Mexican José Luis Camargo was one of those in charge of advising the soccer referees of the National Soccer League of Guatemala.

José Luis Camargo is the director of the Department of Arbitration of the FEDEFUT.

José Luis Camargo was the director of the Department of Arbitration of the FEDEFUT. (Free Press Photo: Fedefut)

The National Football Federation (FEDEFUT) surprised this March 28 by announcing that José Luis Camargo will not continue to exercise his work within the institution, where he was one of the main responsible for arbitral actions week after week in the National League.

It was through a short statement published on its social networks, which FEDEFUT expressed the departure of Camargo from the Department of Arbitration.

“The National Football Federation of Guatemala, to the media and the fans reports that: As of today, Professor José Luis Camargo stops providing his services as the arbitral advisor of the Department of Arbitration of this Federation,” is what the statement narrates.

With that, the relationship of Camargo and his work within the Fedefut, which lasted a few years.

Who is José Luis Camargo and what position he occupied in the Fedefut

José Luis Camargo It is an experienced ex -arter who arrived at FEDEFUT to assume the task of restructuring and developing programs that would lead to the good performance of Guatemalan whistles, however, this March 28, 2025 the Guatemalan Federation decided to dispense with its services in the midst of what some consider A crisis within national arbitration.

The measure of separating Camargo from his position within the FEDEFUT arrives in context where the actions of the referees in Guatemala have been constantly questioned, not only by players, but also by coaches and even the president of the Federation itself, The engineer Gerardo Paiz.

The sports leader was consulted at the beginning of March 2025 about the arbitration crisis in Guatemala and it was clear in affirming that it was of his knowledge that there were problems and that I was soon to take action on the mattersomething that finally fulfilled when the FedEfut announced Camargo’s departure from the Department of Arbitration.

“We have to see the restructuring of how they are preparing at the physical level, you have to restructure everything, we have finished cleaning arbitration because there was corruption,” it was part of what he said to the media.

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