“We will start taking more serious measures than are being taken. We will not continue allowing what is happening, in a few dates you will have news of what is to come. He will make history, we will not continue to endure what we are enduring. ” Pablo González Fuertes He delivered these words on the eve of the last final of Copa del Rey, which Real Madrid threatened to boycott, even causing the mediation of the government, for feeling indicated by the referees of the party.
That day, the one that was going to be the VAR of the final between Barça and Real Madrid, won by the former, verbalized the vestío of the arbitral collective on account of the Already famous real Madrid TV videos. And by the climate of verbal violence that they feel surrounded as a collective, even transformed into physical violence into regional or quarry category parties.
González Fuertes demands that “stop putting the arbitrators in the target” / Efe
La AESAF
“We are going to take action,” said the Asturian referee. Two months after that notice, the Official State Gazette has published the creation of the Spanish Association of Soccer Referees (AESAF)the “trade union organization” that from now on intends to use with argument to defend themselves from the attacks they receive from abroad.
There are eight first division referees that legally appear as promoters of the newly created organism, all of them international. Five have been this season and will be the one that comes (in the absence of official confirmation) field referees: Alejandro Hernández Hernández, Jesús Gil Manzano, Juan Martínez Munuera, José María Sánchez Martínez and Guillermo Cuadra Fernández. Two, the aforementioned González Fuertes and César Soto Gradethey are called to integrate the VAR template next year, which already appears the eighth promoter: Carlos del Cerro Grande.
New governance model
The impulse of this union was known first hand by the Royal Spanish Football Federation that presides Rafael Louzán and aims to be the first of the great changes in the coming weeks in Spanish arbitration.
Because the new governance model of the referees still remains to be defined, claimed by clubs to enhance their independence with respect to RFEF itself. Or so says at least the theory. The clubs themselves, through LaLig Luis Medina Cantalejo and his right hand Carlos Clos Gómez of the Technical Referees Committee.