Luis Medina Cantalejo, president of the Technical Referee Committee (CTA) and the main one indicated by Real Madrid, which called the arbitration collective of the “corrupted” system in its formal protest to the Federation, has left the step to defend the colleges, to those who remove the label of “corrupt”.
“I don’t have to be ashamed of anything. Neither my colleagues are corrupt. We can be very clumsy, we will be very bad referees, but I guarantee that we are not corrupt, ”explained the head of the garments in an interview for the podcast The cafelito With Josep Pedrerol.
What everyone in football sees, a field referee and another of Var can not stop seeing it “
Medina Cantalejo, referee since the beginning of the nineties and until 2009, is the president of the CTA from 2021, three years after Vice President Enriquez Negreira, investigated for the alleged payments of Barça. “I do not share that we are a corrupted structure. I have not lived that. Because someone has committed a crime, which still has to leave the judicial resolution, the rest of the subsequent generations are not to blame for that, ”he explained about it.
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The reason for the controversy with Madrid, or the drop that filled the glass as explained by the White Club in its statement, is the hard kick of the Spanish Carlos Romero to Kylian Mbappé that resulted in a yellow card and not with red. “What everyone in football sees, a field referee and another of Var can not stop seeing it,” said a Medina Cantalejo who acknowledged having sent the fridge, that is, without arbitrating the next days, “to more than five Referees ”of last weekend. “My opinion is that we have to protect the players (…) I am very clear about what has happened, everyone has seen it,” he said without going into details about the play.
The controversial entrance of Carlos Romero to Mbappé.
Medina Cantalejo also assured, in relation to Real Madrid, that “any team that requests it with respect can go to speak” with the referees, although now advocated waiting for the situation to be “pacified” after the hard Madrid protest. “We do not enter dialectics with equipment (…) If everything flows in an polite way we sit down to see what is needed,” he added.
Finally, the head of the referees stressed that the members “are honored despite letters and televisions” and that “they will not harm anyone.”
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