President of the Dimayor gives explosive statements: he defends arbitration and criticizes Junior's attitude

In principle, Jaramillo defended the referees, in the midst of the current crisis and complaints from different teams.

“I have to defend the refereeing. We are all addressing the problem poorly: managers, the Arbitration Commission and the media. The referees are going to continue making mistakes. These errors must be minimized and not so obvious, that is what the VAR is for.” Jaramillo told the MTF program, Toxic Moment of Football.

His defense was even more angry, criticizing Medellín's attitude of pretending not to play due to the appointment of a particular referee.

“We have made a lot of progress in the arbitration issue, they are not permeable, that is, the presidents of the clubs do not influence the arbitration issue. It was an immense mistake by Medellín and other clubs have made immense mistakes. The referees are human beings who we have to respect and value, they feel. If one says: 'These are sons…, they are terrible, they are bad', as one day I heard a commentator, who at the beginning of the game was already disqualifying the referee. That causes a ball of. negative snow around the product and the refereeing itself. The ecosystem is threatened by absurd reactions from the managers: Who claims that now we are going to appoint the referee they want or are they going to veto a referee before a game? ridiculous there is; or threatening that they are not going to show up, that is totally stupid. It is not a confrontation between clubs and administration, that is ridiculous,” he said.

And he added: “We cannot continue making these inflammatory statements. Sometimes they make sense because of obvious errors, but sometimes they don't. Why are we going to ban a referee because he made a mistake on a play three years ago? So he can't whistle again? No. Human beings make mistakes.”​

The leader also referred to the attitude of the Junior players in his criticism of the refereeing in the match against Millonarios and the decision to refuse to play a few seconds after the controversy of the first goal.

“This is a contact sport. There are fouls with severity, with intention, with too much energy, with bad intentions, all of this must be classified by the referee. The thing about the Junior players seems to me to be an affront against everyone, the rival, spectators and other clubs. That they stopped in a game is the most ridiculous thing in the world. The man who said that had negative leadership,” said Jaramillo, who claimed not to realize that they were on the air on the program.