Real Madrid has gone this Monday beyond the mere protests on Saturday after the controversial defeat against Espanyol in which the referee Muñiz Ruiz and the VAR were the great ones indicated. The White Club has issued an open letter against the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in which it indicates the “manipulation” and “adulteration” of a “fraudulent qualified system by ordinary justice itself.”
The full statement, below:
Real Madrid Soccer Club raises this formal claim against the Royal Spanish Football Federation on the occasion of the scandalous arbitration and VAR performance in the match played on February 1, 2025 against RCD Espanyol.
The events that occurred in this meeting have exceeded any margin of human error or arbitration interpretation. What happened in the “RCDE Stadium” represents the culmination of a completely discredited arbitration system, in which decisions against Real Madrid have reached a level of manipulation and adulteration of the competition that can no longer be ignored.
The two most serious arbitration decisions of this meeting have evidenced, once again, the double standard with which Real Madrid is arbitrated:
1. The brutal entrance to Kylian Mbappé, from behind, on the twin and without any possibility of playing the ball, made in the 60th minute of the game by the Espanyol player who would later end up scoring the goal of his team’s victory, deserving From the immediate expulsion as the world press has revealed, it ended the referee’s decision, Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz, to show only yellow card without the VAR, with Javier Iglesias Villanueva as responsible, intervened to correct a manifestly erroneous decision, leaving Impune an aggression that in any other competition would have meant an exemplary sanction.
It is particularly serious that the referee of the meeting consigned in the minutes that the action occurred “in the dispute of the ball” (sic), misrepresenting and thus falsifying the reality of what happened, with the only imaginable purpose of justifying its arbitrary decision. An affirmation that, far from sustaining, is denied by the offender himself, who, when asked after the party, recognized unambiguously that “he knew it was impossible to stop it in the race” and that “he tried to stop him as he could”, also admitting that “” It was a bit ugly entry. ” It could not be clearer: there was no intention of disputing the ball, but the express will to stop the adversary at any price with an inadmissible action not only because of its gravity and unsportsmanship, but also because of the danger that it involved for integrity Physics of our player, so the decision of the referee and inaction of the VAR results from an unquestionable gravity.
2. In the 21st minute of the first part of the match, Vinicius Jr. scored an absolutely legal goal, which was annulled by an alleged previous foul by Kylian Mbappé, despite the fact that the images show that in that play who was subject to prior fault , a clear penalty, was our player, nevertheless the goal and transforming a penalty in favor into a foul against, without the VAR intervening to correct the error or even indicate to the referee who reviewed the play on the monitor.
The scandal generated by this party has had once again a worldwide impact, with the international press denouncing the biased use of the VAR in Spain and the lack of credibility of the Spanish arbitration.
In spite Be true, the only thing they prove is the seriousness of the arbitration decisions adopted in the encounter and the inconsistency of the current arbitration system. The recognition of errors of such magnitude by the responsible body demonstrates the rude and unjustifiable character of the performance of both the field referee and VAR, and reinforces Real Madrid’s complaint about the systematic damage he is suffering. However, the problem is not solved with late and individualized sanctions when decisions taken, as is the case directly affect the result of the competition. What is really needed is a structural reform that prevents these facts from reproducing again and again, as is repeatedly happening to the detriment of Real Madrid and the integrity of the championship.
Given the seriousness of what happened, Real Madrid demands from the RFEF the immediate delivery of the Audios of the VAR relative to the two key play of the party:
1. The audios of the communication between the VAR and the field collegiate in the action of the entrance of the player Carlos Romero on Kylian Mbappé.
2. The audios of the communication between the VAR and the field collegiate in the play of the goal annulled to Vinicius Jr.
3. The conversations produced among the members of the VAR room in both plays.
Knowledge of the content of these audios is essential to shed light regarding the decisions adopted and arbitration action.
This arbitration scandal is not an isolated case. The Spanish arbitral system is completely vitiated and structurally designed to protect itself, with the support of the disciplinary committees dependent on RFEF itself, which systematically refuse to sanction the referees, modify arbitrary sanctions and, ultimately, maintain a system which has already been qualified as fraudulent by ordinary justice itself.
The serious structural problems of Spanish arbitration have been evidenced in recent years, with revelations that have revealed practices incompatible with transparency and impartiality that the competition must govern. However, despite the magnitude of the scandal and erosion of the credibility of the system, there has been no real reform or an effective purification of responsibilities.
What happened in the “RCDE Stadium” is not an isolated episode or a mere arbitration error. It is the most recent and rude manifestation of an arbitral system whose credibility is complete impartiality. A system maintained and protected from the Federation itself, through its successive presidents, by a framework of cross interests in which the arbitration collective, far from being a strictly technical organ subject to criteria of neutrality and excellence, has become a political actor with a decisive weight in federative electoral processes.
When those who must be subject to control and control are, at the same time, a decisive factor in the choice of those who should exercise this supervision work, the result is what we are living. An institutionalized clientelism that makes arbitration an untouchable power within the Federation itself, ensuring its perpetuation without even the greatest scandals being sufficient to promote, in a real way, a structural reform in its operation.
The irregularities in the use of VAR against our entity have been accredited by judicial resolutions, which have evidenced how the images shown to the referees have even been manipulated to induce erroneous decisions against Real Madrid.
Judgment N9 287/2023 of the Social Court N9 47 of Madrid and that of December 7, 2023, issued by the Social Court N9 32 of Madrid, cars 497/2023, declared proven that the referee Var concealed key images To the field collegiate, which led to the unfair expulsion of our player Vinicius Jr., evidencing an action that transcends human errors to intentionality.
The same image manipulation was repeated on January 3, 2025 in the same scenario, which shows that it is not about specific errors, but a form of recurring action, used as a mechanism to harm Real Madrid.
The arbitral inaction before the racist insults, denounced by this part unsuccessful before the permissiveness of the Disciplinary Committees of the RFEF, not only aggravate the problem, but they add a new factor of discredit to the arbitration system and the Spanish Football Federation itself .
And in the meantime, the reality is that the arbitration and disciplinary structure continues to function without changes, perpetuating a system that has shown to be corrupted from within, that only worries about pursuing the protest to the referees and any other complaint or manifestation that shows The reality of the Spanish arbitration system or that simply does not like those responsible.
The scandal generated by this last party, whose impact has transcended our borders, is not an isolated fact or a minor incident, but the unequivocal confirmation that the competition is vitiated by arbitral decisions whose justification is unsustainable.
Real Madrid cannot accept that the competition remains governed by an discredited arbitration system, whose main responsible, far from being separated, continues and exercising determining functions in decision making. It is not enough with superficial changes or the relay of some managers; The only way to restore the credibility of Spanish arbitration requires comprehensive reform that includes, as an essential element, the replacement of those referees whose linkage with stages under suspicion compromises the legitimacy of the system and perpetuates its lack of transparency.
It is not enough with superficial adjustments or the application of protocols that do not alter the bottom of the problem, nor with calls to empty meetings of real content, which actually have the only intention of perpetuating a system that in judicial terms has been qualified “as systemically corrupt”. The arbitration system must be renewed in its entirety, from its structure to those who integrate it, establishing effective control mechanisms that prevent the scenario that has led Spanish football to this situation of absolute discredit.
Given the seriousness of the above and the repetition of irregularities that affect the integrity of the competition, a copy of this to the Higher Sports Council (CSD) is sent, so that you have knowledge of the situation and, where appropriate,, Adopt the measures it deems appropriate.
Sincerely.
José Luis del Valle Pérez
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