Eduardo Iturralde González, former referee and commentator on Cadena SER's ‘El Larguero’ program, analyzed the appearance of Carlos Velasco Carballo, president of the Referee Technical Committee, who had reviewed the season. “This year I give VAR a bad mark, they have left the philosophy of what it was and have fallen into the trap of what the media wanted.”
In his opinion, “it has been shown that the VAR does not only go into clear and manifest error. They have been afraid and they have opened it, and it does not come from the referees either, it comes from above ”.
The Basque said that “now we are talking about the VAR and not the referees, it seems that it is an entity that goes alone. The referee has to have a process of knowing that he is refereeing with VAR ”. And he stated that “if the VAR has corrected more times, the refereeing quality has decreased”.
Iturralde is clear that “he who wins wins because he deserves it and he who descends descends because he deserves it. Neither the VAR has made Real Madrid a winner nor has it lowered the three who have dropped. ”
In the analysis of the season, he believes that “self-criticism has been lacking. Self-criticism must be made by the leaders, not the arbitrators. They are the ones who change their criteria ”.
And he stated that “I think Velasco Carballo is the ideal president to carry this out, but president. You can't be president, vocal, technical director … you have to delegate to other people. “
Finally, he reflected: “Pressure? Pressure is the 15-year-old boy who arbitrates in the regional team and they hit him or the girl who comes out and the first thing they do is insult him when he goes out to arbitrate when he is 15 or 16 years old ”.