The president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Carlos Velasco Carballo, He asked that the successes be recognized and the errors admitted by the VAR, which will be used for the third time this season, in which the referees want to be the 21st team in the First Division and the 23rd in the Second Division.
Velasco Carballo presented with Carlos Clos Gómez, dDirector of the VAR project, and Alberto Undiano Mallenco, from the CTA technical committee, the news of the next campaign with the variations of the rules of the game and the objective of being “consistent, clear and predictable” in the arbitrations, with unified criteria.
“In the third year of VAR we hope it will be known to recognize that the VAR helped last season to solve 150 errors and was wrong in some situations and we recognized it. We have a tremendous illusion in the VAR because our VARs are among the best in the world. The CTA firmly believes in VAR, because it solves hundreds of plays and because it is wrong, “he said after admitting that he does not expect” less media noise “this campaign.
He also announced the contact that the CTA will have this afternoon with the First and Second coaches to exchange impressions and he was satisfied that there is a regulation of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) that protects the refereeing team from insulting or insulting criticism and that question their honesty.
“You criticize the best players and best coaches in the world, how can you not criticize a referee, but we are very happy that our house protects the referees. It is about behaviors far beyond criticism, ”he said.
Regarding the new season, Velasco Carballo He opted for the unification of criteria in the arbitration proceedings and the work done with the referees for this in the last seminars and considered that the most significant modification in the rules of the game refers to the immediacy in accidental hands.
“We have asked the referees to be consistent in our decisions, that everyone whistles in the same way and reduce errors being aware that it is impossible not to err. We ask for fair play, respect for our decisions and for mistakes to be accepted, ”said Undiano Mallenco.
The former Navarrese collegiate detailed the new rules such as the one that affects the protection of the players and the sanctions with a yellow or red card if there is a risk of injury or danger to physical integrity and the one related to the sanction of accidental hands due to their immediacy if a goal is scored or a chance.
He also specified that consider hand impact with the ball from under the armpit; that goalkeepers will only be cautioned when taking penalties if they are repeat offenders and that there will be no yellow, an attempt is made to cut off a promising attack and it is not achieved.
Carlos Clos Gomez focused on the activity of the VAR and insisted that it can never recommend a review, that it only intervenes when it is a clear and manifest error, not an opinion, and that one of the points for improvement “is to lower the average times and that the VAR whenever it enters is to improve what has been done on the pitch ”.
“There are plays in which you have to lose time for the sake of precision, after a goal the attack phase is reviewed, but if there are fouls or possible offside we take longer because we want to be fair. Not only one thing is checked, the review is long because many things are looked at ”, he pointed out before offering images of matches from last season with the audios between the referee and the VAR authorized by FIFA.