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Portillo, 46, succumbed to injuries late Saturday that had put him in a coma for a week after police said a 17-year-old goalie punched him.
Authorities say the teen struck Portillo after the youth was called for a foul and issued a yellow card.
"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," police spokesman Justin Hoyal said in a statement.
The suspect had been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault. Hoyal said authorities would consider additional charges since Portillo's death.
Hoyal said an autopsy was planned. No cause of death was released.
Portillo, of Salt Lake City, suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
Daughter Johana Portillo, 26, said last week that she wasn't at the April 27 game in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, but she had been told by witnesses and detectives that the player hit her father in the side of the head.
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the Associated Press on Sunday.
Portillo's family said he had been attacked before, and Johana Portillo said she and her sisters had pleaded with their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players. But he continued because he loved soccer.
"It was his passion," she said. "We could not tell him no oakley scalpel."
The unaffiliated soccer league, Liga Continental de Futbol, updated its Facebook posting Sunday with a tribute to Portillo, including a number of photographs of him refereeing and playing soccer. It also set up a bank account to accept donations for his family.
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