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2. The referee Benito Armando Archundia. It's annoying to talk about incompetent officiating since it takes away from the game, but there's no question that Archundia had a horrible game. He badly botched the decision not to give the U.S. a penalty when Josh Wolff was hauled down with an open goal in sight and gave a questionable free kick that led to Ronaldinho's goal and Brazil's third. You could even argue that he missed a possible handball call on Carlos Bocanegra's goal as well. This is just the latest travesty of a performance by Archundia, who made a couple of unbelievable decisions over the summer in both the Gold Cup (disallowing Canada's goal against the U.S.) and the Copa America (turning down a blatant penalty for Peru against Venezuela). If there's currently a worse referee than Archundia anywhere on the top level not named Rob Styles, I have yet to see him.
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