Career
Since the child and that he could remember and knew that his father was a referee which was what made him follow his path, as Uruguayan Edgardo everyone was passionate about football, played in childhood Baby Football teams in the area and in his teens he played as goalkeeper for the Club Atlético Cerro of Montevideo.
He began his career as a referee in Uruguay in 1976, by the year 1977 in the Primera División Uruguaya debut in the match Cerro vs Huracán, which happened to be on the Hill Club had most of his former teammates football. In AUDAF was known as "Codesal Jr".
In 1980 he traveled to Mexico where he had contact with the Mexican Football Federation, there begins to arbitrate directly in Mexican football and which was practically his career strong, started refereeing international matches and finals in Mexico.
Although Codesal was born in Montevideo Uruguay, he represented his adopted country, Mexico, as a CONCACAF referee in the 1990 World Cup. Among his international posts, Codesal was CONCACAF's director of referees, head of refereeing for the FIFA Women's World Cup USA 1999, and member of the refereeing committee for the FIFA World U-20 Championship in Nigeria, the Confederations Cup in Mexico and the FIFA World U-17 Championship in New Zealand.
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