The president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Luis Medina Cantalejo, criticized Real Madrid this Wednesday for “pressuring, without ethics, education or respect” the referees through their official television. “It is neither positive nor correct that before a match is played the referee is pressured, and it is being done every week with all the referees,” lamented the top leader of the CTA, after Real Madrid TV has opted to remember actions supposedly detrimental to the white club, “even taking images of referees who are today in the First Division when they whistled at Castilla in Second B.”
“I remember two teams (Atlético and Sevilla) that have come out to counteract that and say that it is not logical for this attack against the referees to occur,” said Medina Cantalejo, who praised the performance of the referees in the first third of the season. , although he acknowledged that “there are aspects that could be improved.” «Last year we recognized that it had not been a good season on a technical level, but so far this campaign there have been many successes and we are very satisfied, because there has been good performance within the areas, and whoever says that the hands are being a problem, he does not monitor the competition,” the Andalusian leader defended himself. “In the Second Division there have been two hands that were wrongly sanctioned, both by the on-field referee and the VAR referee, and in the First Division a manifest error comes to mind,” he said.
Medina Cantalejo also criticized “the footballers who mob the referees” and Florentino Pérez for his complaints towards the group during the recently held Real Madrid assembly and assured that he “totally” respects the statements of the president of the white entity, although he said he did not share them “for obvious reasons.” «Requesting government intervention on the arbitration structure… What does that mean? Let them throw us all out? That we stop belonging to the FEF and go somewhere else alone? », he asked himself.
He also responded to Carlo Ancelotti, who has demanded greater respect for the coaches, and Medina Cantalejo was forceful: “If there is something that the Spanish referees have, since we started as children, it is a tremendous respect for the coaches.” “The other day we had a meeting, which was positive, and we are going to have more,” he announced, just as he anticipated that the objective of the CTA is to agree with LaLiga to take advantage of technology to listen to the conversations between the field referee and the VAR referee.
Regarding the ‘Negreira case’, he admitted that “it has done a lot of damage to refereeing and Spanish football” and demanded that “whoever did it should pay for it, be it the Negreira family, Barcelona or whoever.” “If the judge has the name and surname of any referee who has been involved in that plot, he should pay it, to the maximum extent that justice stipulates,” he noted.
He submitted his resignation
«Since the case came to light, the surprise was tremendous. From that moment on, we put all the information they required and more into the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office, Anti-Violence and Integrity. A judicial process began in which we are immersed and we have to respect Judge Aguirre’s order, but we do not share it. Talking about indications, about comments, that there is a group of referees that has been there… What we want is for this case to be resolved definitively and as soon as possible,” he assured. He also revealed that “five minutes after Pedro Rocha was named president of the FEF,” he made his position available to Luis Rubiales’ replacement.
Medina Cantalejo highlighted that “the most important change this season has been the red cards for violent play, which have had a significant decrease.” «Last year we were tremendously criticized for it, compared to other leagues. The reds in the Premier, however, have risen a lot, because the level of injuries last year was worrying. Here they have gone down, because the first function of the referee is to protect the players,” he stressed.
2023-11-22 16:40:56
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