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ASUNCION, May 5, 2011 (AFP) - "Everything I did I tried to do with love and great faith", Said the Colombian Oscar Julian Ruiz, giving farewell to arbitration, on Thursday in the match of the Copa Libertadores quarter-final, between the Paraguayan team Cerro Porteno and Argentina's Estudiantes, in Asuncion.
Ruiz, who with Cerro-Estudiantes completed 80 matches in the Copa Libertadores, said in its 27 years of arbitration - as FIFA 17 - did the best he could keeping his honesty.
Speaking to the Fox Sports television station, the Colombian referee told why he retired four years before the age limit. "It is better to leave football and refereeing now before football and refereeing leaves me".
Ruiz announced that he was hired by FIFA as an instructor of the assistance program for South American arbitration.
He recalled his 17 years as an international referee since he began in 1995 in a match of the South American Under-17 finals and 12 matches that went beyond the three World Cups he was (Japan and South Korea, Germany and South Africa).
He said remembers three “very special” matches, very difficult in his career.
The first of the three was the final of the Copa America-1999 in Asuncion, between Brazil and Uruguay (3-0), the Intercontinental final between Boca Juniors and Real Madrid in Tokyo in 2000 (Boca 2-1) and final of the Copa Libertadores in 2002 between Olimpia and Sao Caetano (Olimpia won in penalties shootout)
Asked about changing the rules, Ruiz said that his change would be"to punish players for fault simulation based on the videos."
He also said the punishment would have same effect on players who take the ball with the hand and convert the goal, as the case of Argentina's Diego Maradona World Cup final in Mexico-1986, the Brazilian Tulio in the Copa America and Frenchman Thierry Henry against Ireland in the last European qualifying for the South Africa World Cup in 2010.
In 5 Copa America’s, Oscar Ruiz was the referee in nine matches.
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