MEXICO -- Former referee Paul Delgadillo admitted that there was a foul in the first goal of América in the second leg of the Clausura 2013 final of the MX League, so if the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) had existed, it could have been a different story.
In that match, held on May 26, 2013, the Azulcrema team was losing 1-0 (2-0 aggregate score), with only a few minutes left, however, the Colombian Aquivaldo Mosquera scored the equalizing goal in that game, preceded by an illegal block from Francisco Javier Rodríguez on Gerardo Flores.
Six years later, the referee admitted that there was a violation of the rules in that play, so the goal should not have counted, with which the Águilas began the comeback that ended with the title won in penalty shootouts.
"Being self-critical, in the first play (of América's goal) there is a foul. Saying otherwise would be burying one's head in the sand," he told Pasión W.
He explained that "it could be that with VAR, the situation would change because the first play is an evident foul, but because of the number of players, I don't see it."
"It is a demonstration that one enters the field to try to comply with the rule regardless of the colors, if it is not called, it is because the referee did not see it. That's why VAR exists, to avoid human error, but I am sure that none of them do it with predisposition," he stated.
He made it clear that there is no foul in América's second goal, after it was mentioned that there was a previous push on Moisés Muñoz before the shot, which sent the game to extra time.