MADRID, 12 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzan, has headed on Wednesday the beginning of the works of the Reform of the Arbitration System, which will work to improve the transparency of the structure, in a meeting that has taken place in the boardroom of the City of Football of Las Rozas.
For the first time in history, Spanish football as a whole has joined this Wednesday to seek among all the improvement of the arbitration system through a consensual reform.
All professional clubs encompassed in LaLiga and Liga F, as well as the representatives of the national category teams, of the Technical Committee of Referees and the Collegiate themselves have participated in the first meeting of the Reform Commission of the Arbitration System, held in the Board Room of the City of Football.
The meeting was preceded by a sense of tribute to the figure of referee David García de la Loma, whose relatives have received a commemorative plaque from the president of the RFEF, in addition to the unanimous applause of all those attending the work meeting.
Then, Rafael Louzán presided over a meeting initiated with a general exhibition of the moment and operation of the Spanish arbitration by the representation of the CTA with its headquarters, Luis Medina Cantalejo, at the head.
Aspects such as the different world models of arbitration organization, the ways of involving all the actors of the game in the day -to -day life, the scoring criteria of the colleges or the sectorization of the works for the integral improvement of the system have been some of the subjects to be discussed during an appointment in which all the clubs have been able to raise their initiatives, solve doubts and know from close to the current operation of the current system.
For its part, the Commission of Competitions organized by the RFEF with the clubs has addressed the creation of work groups for the different tournaments. During the meeting in the city of football, the proposal to establish geographical proximity in the first qualifiers of the Copa del Rey has been put on the table, as well as issues related to competition calendars or the improvement of the facilities where football matches are played.
At the end of the meeting, the president of the RFEF judged the objectives of it satisfied, noting that this is “the first step of a path that will lead to the reform of the arbitration system.” “It is the first that we start something like that and we are sure that sitting at the same table we can reach great agreements,” he added.
For Louzán they are still in “the zero kilometer”, but that first defend “transparency.” “We have a regulation and regulations that we are willing to modify as far as possible with the participation of all football actors. The RFEF doors will always remain open,” he concluded.
Club representatives have thanked this pioneer initiative headed by the RFEF, which will now be divided into periodic sector meetings within the framework of a reform commission already converted since Wednesday into a fully operational body that will transfer its first improvements to competitions for next season.