Liga Santander: Velasco Carballo: “The referees are human, the VARs too” | LaLiga Santander 2019

The president of Referee Technical Committee (CTA), Carlos Velasco Carballo, rejected this Wednesday that he doubts the performance of a referee and what the VAR, which has been corrected 150 mistakes in 432 games of this season and made 7 mistakes.

“When you doubt the performance in the VOR (room from which the VAR acts) there is tremendous damage to competition, football and arbitration. It is the most serious thing that can happen in a competition, which doubts the integrity of it, “he said during the press conference in which the CTA took stock of the first part of the season.

Velasco Carballo showed his “maximum opposition and intolerance“Faced with this type of criticism when asked about the intention of some clubs to request the arbitration talks during the revisions of the plays, although he confirmed that Real Madrid did not ask for those of the Classic.” We accepted the criticism, but we cannot tolerate someone doubting what a referee does and what the VAR does, “he said.

The CTA explained that in the first part of the season the VAR has corrected 150 errors in 432 games, with 11 percent intervention in the goals. The system corrected 28 actions in the goal area and had 7 errors.

According to the data provided, the VAR acts in the 6.59% on penalties, with 98.35 percent success and 1.65% error. In the offside the VAR intervened in 0.67%, had a success of 96.44% and a 3.56% error.

Its use for the second time in Primera has reduced simulations by 67% and 85% in Second, a category that has premiered this season. Protests have also been reduced, 11% in First and 10% in Second.

On the 7 computed errors, Velasco Carballo, who intervened accompanied by Carlos Clos Gmez, VAR project director, insisted that his goal “is to try to reduce that number.” “I wish there was something in which the referees are not mistaken, but the referees are human, the VARs also. Football with VAR leaves us 417 hits and 7 errors, “he added.

He also talked about the system in the Super Cup, in which his intervention “has been decisive.” “What would have been that game with VAR or without VAR, maybe there was a millimetric offside and thanks to the VAR it was solved, but we have not heard anything in the Super Cup that has said that the level of arbitration has been very high. We accept it and it is already “, he added in allusion to the semifinal between Barcelona and Atletico de Madrid.

“When we are right, nobody says anything, when we are wrong, the critics come out. If on 150 occasions they would have come out to say what a wonder and that thanks to this the game has been more fair … Imagine the balance: 150 loas in front of about 15 complaints The 150 are absolutely silenced, it is an anecdote when someone comes out, “he said.