The president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Luis Medina Cantalejo, made a agency protection of the arbitration group on Thursday within the face of the data that appeared within the ‘Negreira case’ and made it clear that “there may be not a single piece of proof that may say {that a} referee Spanish is dishonest”.
“What does this need to do with us? It has been criminalized and an anti-referee social local weather has been created, during which it’s mentioned that the referees are purchased. There isn’t any proof in opposition to anybody from right here or from the earlier era nor proof that They can say {that a} Spanish arbitrator is dishonest. Everything is attributable to individuals on this home who profited and whose actions are unethical and are available from Spanish arbitration,” Medina Cantalejo asserted at a press convention.
The former referee acknowledged that the “harm is finished and stains.” “We need to work, proceed coaching, that the video games come out in all classes, and make ourselves accessible to all of the authorities. The one who has the best curiosity in clarifying that is us. There just isn’t a single take a look at that may soiled the work of those women and men and those that preceded us. If somebody has dedicated an act that pays for it and there has solely been discuss of a vp, his son and FC Barcelona, who would be the ones who need to be held accountable and justice will sanction them or not “, he warned.
Andreu Camps
The basic secretary of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Andreu Camps, expressed this Thursday “absolutely the and full confidence” of the physique within the arbitration group regardless of the data associated to the ‘Negreira case’, and warned that they’ve been in a position to “confirm that an individual with authorities accountability” was conscious of the information and “didn’t report it”, and {that a} member of the property didn’t wish to collaborate within the questionnaire that was despatched.
“I wish to specific absolutely the and full confidence of this RFEF and its president with the whole arbitration group and that no motion that may very well be confirmed, even when it’s the goal of legal regulation, can discredit them and make them doubt their full honesty. If it’s confirmed one thing, we flatly refuse that this could have detrimental penalties for our trustworthy {and professional} members of the arbitration group,” Camps mentioned in an look earlier than the media along with Luis Medina Cantalejo, president of the CTA.
The federation director made a chronology of the occasions, limiting himself to giving “goal explanations that can’t hurt the investigation that’s being developed and that should proceed to be developed”, and that for the group “the essential factor is to succeed in the top of this investigation “, making it clear that their authorized providers have indicated that presently it could be “counterproductive” to file a grievance because the collegiate Xavier Estrada Fernández has already executed individually.
Camps confirmed that the Spanish Tax Agency contacted the RFEF in 2021 and that the investigation being carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office “doesn’t final days or perhaps weeks” and that in the course of the investigation they’ve carried out from the federation they’ve been in a position to “confirm that some particular person understanding first-hand” the information didn’t denounce them “when he had a governmental accountability”, though he didn’t give any identify.