A referee retires after receiving death threats and being beaten in a Huelva league

The referee David Worth Ruiz32 years old, has announced that he will not referee again after being threatened with death and beaten by a player in a Huelva Labor Football League match.

As reported to Eph the referee, the meeting took place “within normality, it was not rough” and that, after admonishing a player who had protested his decisions with a yellow card, the footballer told him that he was going to “kill” him, for which he was sent off, after which the admonished player turned to him and hit him in the face.

“I was stunned and he was grabbed by his teammates and rivals,” he said. valuewho added that he went to the locker room “very nervous, in a state of anxiety”, and worried about the fact that the player could access that room.

“I was in shock and I did not know if that person could access the locker room. I called the National Police and then I went to the hospital and with the injury report I filed the complaint”he explained.

“More than the blow itself, which, logically, also hurt me, it is more the psychological mark that remains on you”acknowledged the victim, who had been refereeing since he was 14 years old and who specified that “never in his life had something similar happened to him on a soccer field”, for which he feels “very emotionally affected” and there is no question of “redirecting a party”.

about the aggressor, David Wert commented that he has not heard from him again and that the players told him that “he ran away before the police arrived and has not been located”.

All his teammates and the players from the other team condemned the attack, apologized and had “an exemplary attitude. They were well disposed, attentive and empathic with me,” he said.

value He had the support of his teammates, as the Huelva Association of Veteran Referees issued a statement announcing that they refuse to direct matches for the offending footballer’s team, who in turn also announced his withdrawal from the competition.

As he relates, it is not the first incident involving a player from this team since at the beginning of this season another referee was already attacked.