“That they threaten my mother, that they say where my son is going and what time he leaves for school; these situations are not good,” said Yael Falcón Pérez.
Avellaneda’s classic continues to make people talk. The 1-1 between Independent-Racing in the Libertadores de América it has not yet finished. He continues in the media. First, the national director of Arbitration, Federico Beligoy, spoke. And then it was the turn of the referee Yael Falcón Pérez, who charged a controversial penalty for the Academy and He denounced that he received several threats.
“I went with conviction to collect a penalty,” said the referee of the Avellaneda classic, who spoke on ESPN F90. And he added: “I saw that he was pushing him, he kept pushing him over the line and they both fell inside. I have the situation clean.”
This decision brought problems to Falcón Pérez. Not only because of the massive claims of the Independiente players and the insults of the fans. That was the least. “They threatened me and my family,” said the referee.
And he added: “My family received threats. In my house there are doctors, lawyers, I am a teacher. We all studied, we went to the university, we trained. We believe in the path of study and academic training to achieve things in this such a complex country. That they threaten my mother, that they say where she is going and what time my son leaves for school. These situations are not good”.
And so he continued with his defense: “In the locker room there is no signal, I am not one to pick up the phone. I try to isolate myself from everything. What done is done. You will not compensate anything. If you see it, you leave conditioned. You have to end up leading convinced. Who was not wrong? I saw footballers who threw the ball to the second tray under the goal, I saw journalists who said that Scaloni could not lead the National Team and they also criticized Messi. And I saw referees who failed. We are all human beings“.
On the other hand, Falcón Pérez also clarified his situation with the Lanús mayor, whose mayor is Néstor Grindetti, interim president of Independiente. The referee resigned last week from his job at the School of Municipal Soccer Referees in the Undersecretary of Sports of the Municipality of Lanús so that there would be no suspicions. “I worked for a long time in schools and I began to help in a municipal school in the place where I was born, raised and currently live,” he commented.
Falcón Pérez did not dodge any questions and got fully involved in the controversy of the classic. From that play that happened 35 minutes into the first half, after a precise long pass from Jonathan Gómez, Facundo Mura won the position and was the victim of a foul by Nicolás Vallejo that left no questions. The doubt was installed: was the push inside or outside the area? the VAR confirmed the maximum penalty, Matías Rojas took advantage of it and nailed a left-footed shot to the angle for equality.
“I know that it is a complex, difficult play. You try to make the decisions on the field and always decide. The referees, the footballers, the journalists can be wrong, we can be right, but We try to do our job with the greatest honor possible. And always respect the most precious thing that we have, which is the arbitration investiture,” said Falcón Pérez.
And he added: “I have conceptual clarity of the play and I have no doubts about the decision. As soon as I see Vallejo’s infraction, I immediately sanctioned it because I considered that it was over the line. Here is something tacit. Pushing and holding are continuous movements. It’s not that she touched him and left him. The push ends when the movement ends. And when it was over, I saw him on the line. One decides in the field. It’s a thousandth of a second“.
And he continued: “After that, the booth can view the image, go frame by frame, see where the point of contact begins and where it ends. Look at the hands and it’s on the line. The play will generate repercussions. If it was charged free kick, one team complained. If a penalty was charged, the other would get angry. The VAR confirms it and that is why the decision on the field is ratified. “I saw that he was pushing him, he kept pushing him over the line and they both fell inside. And I went with that conviction to charge a penalty. Because I have the situation clean.”
Beligoy’s endorsement
A while before, Beligoy had supported Falcón Pérez. “The most important and crucial thing is that there is a forceful and correct decision on the field. Falcón Pérez saw the play, understood that it was a penalty, he clearly saw that the push extended to inside the area and that the Independiente player fell on top of the player from Racing”, affirmed the boss of the referees, who confirmed that Falcón Pérez will be the Argentine referee in the U-20 World Cup that will be held in Argentina.
2023-04-17 17:20:44
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