Luis Medina Cantalejo The president of the Technical Referee Committee (CTA) has ceased to be Thursday. The president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzánhas decided to completely renew the arbitration dome, which also includes the cessation of Antonio Rubinos Pérez (attached to the presidency), Vicente Lizondo Cortés, Bernardino González Vázquez and José Luis Lesma López (Vice Presidents), and Carlos Clos Gómez (Director of the VAR project). The cessation has been communicated internally this Thursday, once the arbitration templates have been announced for the next season, and minutes later it has become official.
Louzán thus faces one of the demands he had received from the different factual powers of Spanish football in his first semester of the Presidency: The renewal of the command structure of the referees. The changes will not end with a change of chromos in the direction stalls, but will be a deeper model change.
The Real Madrid War with the referees
At the head of belligerence against the current system, the Real Madrid had been indisposed. The White Club has been fighting a media war against the referees, through its official television channeland in a very special way against who was so far responsible for the VAR, Clos Gómez.
This confrontation reached its peak of maximum intensity in the previous Cup final, when Real Madrid threatened not to appear at the Cartuja (He boycotted, in fact, the official press conferences) If González Fuertes was not changed as VAR of the match, after he indirectly attacked the white club campaign. Finally, after the mediation of the government, the White Club withdrew its order.
González Fuertes demands that “stop putting the arbitrators in the target” / Efe
LaLiga, beyond proper names, A change in the arbitration model has also demanded years ago that makes it less dependent on the RFEF. And many clubs, throughout the season, had raised complaints about arbitration decisions that had been considered unfair, censoring the level of general arbitration.
The role of the new union
Louzán had been sensitive in these months to all these demands and already launched a message to the Leave Medina Cantalejo out of its board of directors, who has been in charge of the CTA since 2021, when he replaced Carlos Velasco Carballo. His cessation was on the table and, despite the fact that the new arbitration union Aesaf had shown his desire that the Andalusian continue in office, has finally decided to execute his dismissal and that of his closest collaborators.
Medina Cantalejo, beyond her technical work at the head of the referees, He had been marked for his support for Luis Rubiales. He was the former president of the CTA one of the RFEF executives who applauded him in that infamous assembly of the quintuple “I will not resign” after His sexual aggression to beautiful Jenni, endorsed precisely this week by the National Court.
The president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, and the president of the referees, Luis Medina Cantalejo / Rodrigo Jimenez / EFE
His cessation, in short, deepens The determination of Louzán to terminate the Rubiales era in federative offices and to seek understanding with the rest of the agents and levels of Spanish football, giving the confrontation stage that the Granada leader starred, also charged in the Super Cup.
The new arbitration model
And now what? The RFEF, without going into too many details, has announced that On July 2 will present the new structure of the Technical Referees Committee with “the will to open a new stage in the arbitration field.”
Along these lines, Louzán promoted a “Arbitral system reform group” With the participation of members, five first, second clubs and League F (Sevilla, Betis, Tenerife, Albacete and Granada), Javier Tebas as president of LaLiga and vice president of the RFEF and also Real Madrid as a guest, despite not having been designated by LaLiga clubs to be his representative.
The approach, in the absence of landing all the details, goes through appoint a CEO or general director that is at the forefront of the entire structurewith a sports manager. A change is expected, and greater transparency, in the system of designations and promotions and descents of category, with the participation of clubs and LaLiga in the management of the collective.
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