Adonis Carrasco

Adonis Carrasco
Full name Adonis Carrasco García
Born (1993-03-09) 9 March 1993
Las Caobas, Dominican Republic
Other occupation Physical education teacher
Domestic
Years League Role
2018– Liga Dominicana de Fútbol Referee
International
Years League Role
2023– FIFA listed Referee

Adonis Carrasco García[1] (born 9 March 1993[1]) is a football referee from the Dominican Republic, who has been an international FIFA-listed referee since 2023.[2]

Career

Carrasco was born in Las Caobas, Santo Domingo Province, and played basketball for his entire childhood and youth, taking part in national tournaments for the Club of El Millón, Las Caobas Club, and Avanzada Juvenil.[3] He also reached the Torneo Superior de Baloncesto with the team of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), where he studied physical education.[3] As a professional basketball player, he usually played as a small forward, earning up to 2000 pesos per match.[3]

Carrasco said that he "stumbled upon" a recruitment call for football referees while studying at the UASD and that he had only a little knowledge of the sport. He said that he had never played a football match, but jokingly added that he signed up for the course because "[one] never knows what you are going to live on."[3] He added that upon finishing his first training week, he felt refereeing as a "first-sight love", highlighting the pressure in football games and the respect earned by footballers as a motivation to pursue a professional career.[3] Carrasco's mentor was local female referee Felícita Rodríguez, who taught him the rules of football and made him watch matches to take notes. In his own words, Carrasco later looked at Rodríguez as if she were his own mother.[3]

The first match for Carrasco was not at a local level, but at the 2018 Caribbean Club Shield in his native country, where he was selected to take part of refereeing due to lack of officials coming for the tournament.[3] His most important game at the competition was a semifinal between Inter Moengotapoe and SV Deportivo Nacional at the Estadio Cibao FC in Santiago de los Caballeros.[3][4]

After the 2018 Caribbean Club Shield, he was noticed by the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol (LDF) and by the regional CONCACAF, beginning to lead matches in qualifying tournaments for the FIFA U-17 World Cup and the FIFA U-20 World Cup.[5][3] He was the first referee from the Dominican Republic to lead a final match at the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup by overseeing the first leg final of the 2023 edition between S.V. Robinhood and Cavalier F.C. at the Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Stadion in Paramaribo.[3][6]

Other competitions for Carrasco came afterwards, including the Dallas Cup, the CONCACAF Champions Cup, the CONCACAF Central American Cup, and FIFA World Cup qualifiers for CONCACAF.[6][7][3] He was also named LDF's Referee of the Year in 2022 and 2024,[6] with his first game at his local league being a match between Atlántico FC and Delfines del Este FC.[3] In 2023, he was also assigned for the men's tournament at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador.[8][9]

In 2025, Carrasco was selected for the CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where he led two group stage matches: Group H game between Indonesia and Zambia, and Group I match between Czechia and Burkina Faso.[10][11][3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Adonis Carrasco García – Acción Deportiva" (in Spanish). 2025. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  2. ^ "Dominican Republic Football Association". Inside FIFA. 2025. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Mejía, Moisés (27 May 2025). "Adonis Carrasco, un árbitro que el fútbol le robó al baloncesto". Listín Diario (in Spanish). Santo Domingo. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Récord de árbitros dominicanos en competencias internacionales en agosto". RC Noticias (in Spanish). 13 August 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  5. ^ Beltre, Malvin (7 February 2023). "FEDOFUTBOL | Los Jueces Dominicanos Carrasco y Taveras al Campeonato Sub-17 de Concacaf". Fútbol Total RD Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  6. ^ a b c "El árbitro Adonis Carrasco valora muy exigente ritmo de juego LDF". Diario Libre (in Spanish). 7 April 2025. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  7. ^ García Sr., Héctor (20 March 2023). "Cuatro árbitros RD accionarán en Liga de Naciones Concacaf". Momento Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Árbitros RD, designados para tres grandes eventos fútbol". Comité Olímpico Noticias RD (in Spanish). 18 May 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  9. ^ "Árbitros de RD a Copa Oro y Centroamericanos y del Caribe". El Nuevo Diario (República Dominicana) (in Spanish). 17 May 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  10. ^ "Indonesia vs. Zambia en vivo: seguí el partido minuto a minuto". TyC Sports (in Spanish). 5 November 2025. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  11. ^ "0-7. Costa Rica pone pie y medio en la Copa Oro con goleada a domicilio sobre Belice". Infobae (in Spanish). 22 March 2025. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
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