The former president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Carlos Velasco Carballo and 11 more members were reported to the Civil Guard by their own colleagues for hiring the coaching services of the son of the former vice president of the CTA José María Enríquez Negreira.
Velasco Carballo was chosen number 1 of the referees by the then president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubialesin May 2018 to replace Victoriano Sánchez Arminio. Only 3 years later, Velasco Carballo was replaced by the current president of the CTA, Luis Medina Cantalejo.
As can be seen from the statements of around twenty members, collected in the summary of the Negreira case to which they have had access Digital Freedomactive and retired referees who hired the services of Javier Enriquez along with Velasco Carballo were the following: Javier Alberola Rojas, Juan Martínez Munuera, Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez y Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo (1st Division); David Medie Jiménez, Iñaki Vicandi Garrido y Santiago Jaime Latre (1st Division and VAR); Alvaro Moreno Aragón y José María Carrera García (1st Division assistant); Oliver de la Fuente Ramos (2nd Division) and Carlos Calderina Pavon (1st RFEF).
The sessions were carried out in person or online, each cost between 100 or 200 euros and were paid in cash, by transfer or by bizum. He charged some referees more than others and so on, sometimes he charged them for the coaching and other times he didn’t.
Especially illuminating was the statement of Mateu Lahoz before the Civil Guard about the connection between Velasco Carballo and Negreira’s son. He stated that the former president of the CTA was the one who had received the most coach training from Javier Enríquez, who also had a very important portfolio of referees, surely recruited as individual clients during the arbitration concentrations. According to Mateu Lahoz, in the arbitration group it was known that Enríquez had always helped Velasco Carballo in his arbitration journey before becoming president of the CTA and they wondered why he never counted on his services once Velasco Carballo himself assumed the presidency of the National Committee .
Mateu Lahoz was pointed out in turn by the assistant José María Sánchez Santos as one of the members who had also supposedly hired the son of the former vice president of the CTA. However, the Valencian referee flatly denied it to the agents, clarifying that he would never have told them because he had his private coach, although he offered him his services on several occasions.
Santiago Jaime Latre He told investigators that he knew how Javier Enríquez worked and that he knew other colleagues who had hired him. Since he did not know other people who were dedicated to coaching, he decided to hire him. One of his assistants who was Catalan, José María Carrera García, recommended him to him and told him that he paid him in cash. Regarding the 7 transfers of 200 euros that were published in the press, he indicated that he thought they were less, although he remembered that in their concepts he always put the acronyms of the football teams with respect to the game they commented on in the coaching sessions.
Latre added that in those talks they talked about placement aspects, interaction with the players, gestures he had made and similar aspects with the aim of improving these behaviors and that the sessions were very useful. Although he paid him in transfers, Enríquez told him that many people, perhaps to make it appear that he had many clients, paid him in cash.
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The assistent Miguel Martínez Munuera revealed to the agents that his collegiate brother Juan Martínez Munuera He hired Negreira’s son because he was looking to improve concentration in his refereeing, understanding that he could help him in that regard. These sessions were done electronically, and the amount was unknown, although his brother paid him by transfer.
Javier Alberola Rojas He explained that he met Javier Enríquez as a coach of the RFEF and hired him at the end of 2018, a year after being promoted to the First Division, until 2020. In the refereeing world there was talk about him, he enjoyed a good image and needed support for his profession. He thought that he was the best person to whom he could ask for support, he saw his website, his resume, his career in the Federation and thought that he was the ideal person. Enríquez told him that he gave these sessions to other referees, players and coaches, but without giving them names.
I paid him through bizum or by bank transfer, never in cash. The sessions were online and they usually did one a week as a general rule. They cost between 100 or 125 euros per hour. He gave him invoices, but he does not currently have any, nor does he specifically remember who issued the invoices, whether as a self-employed person or in the name of a company.
Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo He told the Civil Guard that he met Negreira’s son at a rally. She worked with him analyzing matches to improve as a professional referee and later, she hired him as a coach to improve his refereeing abilities for a certain number of matches, between 10 and 12, paying him about 200 euros per session in cash. He would go to Enríquez’s house and the sessions would take place there.
The Second Division referee, Oliver de la Fuente Ramosworked together with Javier Enríquez from the end of 2015 to January 2019. He met him at some physical-technical meetings, he liked the subjects he taught and in December 2015 he received a call from Enríquez himself in which he offered himself as a coach According to his statement, he did not remember giving him his phone number and does not know how he obtained it. He paid by bank transfer the vast majority of the time, which was an average of 500 euros per month, a total of 14,200 euros. She did not ask for an invoice for it, nor did he offer one to her. The monthly fee was 300 euros and if it involved analyzing a match, 200 euros more per match.
Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira and his son Javier Enriquez.
Hire the son so that the father promotes them
The summary of the case also includes a very relevant statement for the case from the 1st RFEF referee and fourth First Division referee, Fernando Roman Roman. He highlighted to the Civil Guard that Javier Enríquez could influence his father in the sense of commenting or informing her about the referees to whom he gave, at a private level, coaching talks.
According to the testimony of Román Román, The referees who paid Enríquez could be favored in promotions by the fathersince he could take into account his son’s comments in relation to the referees he brought to the highest category.
2024-01-14 17:55:16
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