Mario Escobar (referee)

{{Short description|Guatemalan association football referee (born 1986)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}

{{family name hatnote|Escobar|Toca|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox football official

|name= Mario Escobar

|fullname = Mario Alberto Escobar Toca{{cite web|title=Guatemala - M. Escobar - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway|url=https://us.soccerway.com/referees/mario-escobar/196207/|access-date=29 January 2021|website=us.soccerway.com}}

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1986|09|19|df=y}}{{cite web|title=Mario Escobar - Matches as referee|url=https://www.worldfootball.net/referee_summary/mario-escobar/|access-date=29 January 2021|website=worldfootball.net|language=en}}{{cite web|date=14 August 2017|title=Education & Technical - Referees by Association |url=http://www.fifa.com:80/development/education-and-technical/referees/association=gua/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814162130/http://www.fifa.com:80/development/education-and-technical/referees/association=gua/index.html|archivedate=14 August 2017|access-date=29 January 2021}}

|birth_place = Guatemala

| years1 =

| league1 = Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala

| role1 = Referee

|internationalyears1=2013–|internationalyears2=|confederation1=FIFA|confederation2=CONCACAF

|internationalrole1=Referee|internationalrole2=Referee}}

Mario Alberto Escobar Toca (born on 19 September 1986) is a Guatemalan football referee who is a listed international referee for FIFA since 2013.{{cite web|url=https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/73018d1c158c1fd5/original/2021-FIFA-Refereeing-International-Lists.pdf|title=FIFA list of referees |publisher=resources.fifa.com |date=2021 |accessdate=30 January 2021}} He is also one of the referees for the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala.

On 15 May 2019, Escobar was officially selected as a referee for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup in Costa Rica, Jamaica, and the United States.{{cite web|title=Match Officials Appointed for 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup|url=https://www.goldcup.org/en/article/match-officials-appointed-for-2019-concacaf-gold-cup|access-date=17 May 2019|website=www.goldcup.org}} He was summoned to officiate the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final between Mexico and the United States, and additionally refereed the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final between UANL and Los Angeles FC.

Escobar was also one of the appointed referees of the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil.{{cite web|title=Designados los árbitros de la Copa Mundial Sub-17 de la FIFA Brasil 2019|url=https://es.fifa.com/u17worldcup/news/designados-los-arbitros-de-la-copa-mundial-sub-17-de-la-fifa-brasil-2019|access-date=30 October 2019}}{{cite web|title=List of appointed FIFA Match Officials|url=https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/d55c867c1432bac/original/kkg9qf8zjbwh9vopioqf-pdf.pdf|language=en|access-date=30 October 2019}}