Peter Prendergast

Who is Peter Prendergast?

Peter Prendergast is a football referee from Jamaica. A FIFA referee since January 1, 1994, his first international match was USA against Ireland, on June 9, 1996. Since then he has refereed many matches in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup and the Confederations Cup. He is most known for a controversial decision at the 2002 World Cup, where he did not award Marc Wilmots's 0-1 goal in the game Brazil-Belgium. Brazil would go on to win the game and the World Cup.

Prendergast is bilingual, able to speak Spanish as well as his native English.