The president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Luis Medina Cantalejoadmitted this Thursday that last season was “improvable” in the arbitration aspect and that they are trying to reduce the level of intervention of the VAR because “if it increases, it is that something does not add up on the field”, while he apologized for “the way to say things »in the audio that was leaked a few weeks ago in which he harshly criticized a referee.
«The season from the arbitration point of view has been better, it has not been good. If the level of intervention of the VAR increases, it is because something does not add up on the field and we have strongly emphasized that the field referees must have decision-making capacity and that when there is a manifest error, the VAR intervenes, “Medina Cantalejo explained at a press conference in the Royal Football Federation of the Principality of Asturias after the seminar held in Oviedo.
For the Andalusian, “the increase in the level of intervention (of the VAR) is not good, although it is true that there has been justice”, and he asked to “sing the ‘mea culpa'”. «We cannot come here sticking out our chests because it has not been an extraordinary season, we have to improve some aspects and we have already started during the preseason. Surely with work and effort it will be better », he pointed out.
«The field referee is there to make decisions and it is true that when the safety net is in place, you may not throw yourself into the void as in our time when we were not one hundred percent certain of each action. In the CTA we think, and the referees too, that perhaps the security of having the VAR now they do not make any decisions that they previously made on the gray plane, “he added.
The president of the CTA He also warned that there are actions, “such as rough play”, for which they understand that “VAR intervention is not necessary”. «The referees are sufficiently prepared and concentrated to make the determination on the field. There is a little lack of decision at times and perhaps from the BEFORE You are too strict with some issues, “he settled.
In addition, he did not forget that it was an “atypical” season due to everything that happened after the “Negreira case” came to light. “We found ourselves involved in controversies and highly publicized issues that are in the hands of justice that it seems that situations are being clarified and the arbitration is completely sure that everything will be very clear,” he warned.
The former international referee recalled that “it is not easy to work if every day each team issues a statement complaining without speaking” with the group and that he does not consider that the number of reds shown last season “one of the mistakes that have been made the most” . “Maybe it’s not the right number, but not by excess,” he remarked.
Finally, Luis Medina Cantalejo He spoke of the audio that came to light a few weeks ago in which he harshly criticized an arbitrator, assuring that it had “nothing to do with the ‘Negreira case’ but rather to” come out in defense” of the group, but after learning that there was a journalist who had infiltrated a meeting.
«Although he was absolutely right in the world, when I heard that audio the first one who did not like it was me and I apologize for that way of saying things, but not the one who leaked it and put the journalist in the meeting room. The referees called me to tell me that the meeting had been suspended because someone from our group who had given a ‘link’ to a journalist and was in the room, “he stressed.
Less penalties per hand
Together with Luis Medina Cantalejo, the director of the VAR Project, Carlos Clos Gómezy Alberto Undiano Mallenco, member of the Technical Commission. The Aragonese former referee also demanded “fewer interventions” and “the collaboration of all the actors” to improve effective playing time, which was “very small” last season. In this sense, he remarked that next season, when it comes to extra time, the goals will be taken into account and “at least one minute will be added if you don’t have to wait for the VAR.”
For his part, the former Navarrese referee detailed situations related to rough play, acknowledging that they are “aware of some criticism” and that last year they were left without getting some direct reds, “but not many more” than the 30 they showed.
They are also “moderately satisfied” with the drop in penalties called ‘low intensity contact’ (from 90 to 71) and warned that for the new season there will be no warnings for all hands inside the area and on the edge of the area.
2023-08-03 12:55:41
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