The president of the Referee Committee (CTA) Luis Medina Cantalejo has come to deny Real Madrid’s accusations about officials in Spain, after his open letter to the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Rafael Louzan. In the letter, the referees in Spain are accused of being corrupt and stealing the whites of honors.
Real Madrid sent a four -page letter, published on its website and signed by the Secretary of the Board, claiming that the referees in the league had specifically damaged them. In the letter, they demand a reform in the CTA, and the dismissal of officials who were active during the period, former vice president José Maria Enriquez Negreira, was in power. He is currently being investigated for sports corruption between 2001 and 2017, when he received more than 7 million euros in payments in Barcelona.
In an interview with El Chiringuito, as the sport took, Medina explained that although the referees can make mistakes, they are no way dishonest.
😯 Medina Cantalejo, about the entrance to Mbappé with @Jpedrerol:
🗣️ “Everyone has seen it, I am very clear about what has happened.”
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“I don’t have to be ashamed of anything. Neither my colleagues nor I are corrupt at all. We could be very inept, we could be very bad, but I guarantee that we will not be corrupt. “
“The referees do not go with the intention of damaging anyone. Despite the statements, letters or television say, we are honest. No one goes to the field with the idea of damaging anyone. ”
On the decision not to send Carlos Romero for his challenge about Kylian Mbappe, the central theme of the complaints of Real Madrid, Medina almost admitted that it was a mistake.
“What everyone sees, an arbitrator and two VAR officials cannot see. I am very clear about what happened, everyone has seen it, although I not only mean the action of Mbappe … when it is black and white and black it is obvious and the referee opts for black, I cannot give an explanation. “
Meanwhile, former referee Eduardo Iturralde González has revealed to Cadena Ser that the referees and the CTA feel they have been hung to dry by the RFEF. While the Federation issued a statement on Monday “regretting the tone” of the complaints of Real Madrid, however, it did not condemn the complaints itself. It has also been reported that the referees are considering the strike.