Anderson Daronco

On March 27, 2022, after an international football match between Peru and Uruguay, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio and other international media outlets criticized Daronco for a supposed history of refereeing favorable for the Uruguayan side. According to sports journalist Marco Quilca Leon, Daronco declined to use goal-line technology after a highly controversial play at the 92 minute, where it seemed that Uruguay goalkeeper Sergio Rochet stopped a ball inside his own goal. The Peruvian Football Federation filed an official complaint to FIFA against Daronco after the match.

On August 30, 2020, after a game featuring Grêmio versus Caxias game, comments about Daronco's stature and physical presence went viral on social media, gaining coverage in the Spanish-language press.

In January 2019, Daronco reported that the director of the Veranópolis, Ademir Bertoglio uttered several curses against him and his referee team during the game. Later, a fan wearing a Veranópolis shirt also invaded the locker rooms, cursed and threatened the referees with death.

In July 2019, the incident and his life was used as one of the themes of a series of parodies by Marcelo Adnet , " Soy loco por Copa América " , showcased on Rede Globo , which addressed the fact that the Daronco does not accept insults and that his stature and athletic appearance made him stay known as "strong judge". In August 2019, Daronco stopped a game between Vasco da Gama and São Paulo due to homophobic screams uttered by the Vasco fans. The posture was praised by the Brazilian Football Confederation. It was the first time that a football match was interrupted in Brazil due to homophobic chants.

During the 2018 Campeonato Gaúcho, a photo and false news involving Daronco went viral. To ascertain the evidence, newspaper GaúchaZH subsidiary of Zero Hora got Professor Robert Tieztman, the coordinator of the research group ViDiCa Cultural Cultura Audiovisual Digital at PUCRS to study the images. He proofed that the information was false through a video showing five "grotesque" errors between the original and the fake photo.

In 2017, he weighed 90 kg, after losing around 3 or 4 kg, due to the advice of committees and physical instructors who cautioned and advised him to reduce the extra weight to avoid problems in his career in the short and long term. With his weight he is able to run 40 meters in less than six seconds and trains practically every day due to his job.

On 30 October 2014, he became a FIFA referee, making him the third Gaucho member to join the FIFA referee group, along with Leandro Pedro Vuaden. He revealed that his aspires to one day officiate at a World Cup. He was selected to take part in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Daronco was born and lives in Maria, Rio Grande do Sul where some of his Physical Education students died in the Kiss nightclub fire in 2013 when was a PE instructor and teacher. In 2015, during the 2015 Brazilian Nationals, Daronco was involved in 27 matches, setting a record of the highest matches officiated in Brazil within that period. In the process he received an amount of 100,000 reais the highest amount. In 2017, he referred 21 matches again the most from Rio Grande do Sul which also translated to 84,000 reais. Daranco stated that his passion for the sport made him muscular even though that was not his intention.

Anderson Daronco played handball from ten to twenty-one years. In 1998 he entered the Faculty of Physical Education.

Anderson Daronco (born 5 January 1981) is an association football referee. He has worked as a referee in the Campeonato Gaúcho, the Copa do Nordeste, Campeonato Brasileiro and the Copa do Brasil.