Overview

• The Comisión de Árbitros declined to sanction Marco Antonio Ortiz and kept him on the Jornada 7 schedule to officiate Santos vs Tigres.
• Ortiz shared a statement on Instagram asserting that opinions without knowledge lack weight, framing his response as a defense of expertise.
• In Atlas’ 4-2 loss to América, he awarded two penalties to the visitors—one for a handball after a Cristian Borja cross hit Gaddi Aguirre’s arm and another after Víctor Dávila went down late—and faced claims he spared a red card.
• Media coverage notes Ortiz has already refereed two América matches in this Apertura 2025, a detail fueling scrutiny of assignment practices.
• Reports describe sustained backlash on social media, with thousands of critical comments targeting his decisions in the Estadio Jalisco match.