The Balearic Islands say enough: soccer and futsal days suspended due to referee aggression

The Balearic Islands Football Federation has reported the suspension of this weekend’s football and futsal day as a gesture of condemnation of attacks on referees and as a measure of support for the arbitration establishment, which has called a day of strike against violent acts and aggressions recently registered. In a press release, the Federation has expressed its “maximum concern and strong condemnation” in relation to the latest aggressions suffered by referees in which competitions depend on it.

The body has argued that the referees, in all categories, must lead in a context of “full guarantees”, which requires the “awareness” of all football agents and the efforts of the competent authorities in terms of security. “so that situations like the one experienced by referee Joan Miquel Reus last weekend never happen again”who was attacked by a player in a Third Regional match.

In this way, the FFIB postpones this weekend’s day not only in the categories that have been requested by the arbitration group –Third Division and Preferred Regional–, but each and every one of the categories without exception that are dependent and delegates of this federation. This measure, they have pointed out, has the support of the RFEF in the figure of its president, Luis Rubialesand the Technical Arbitration Committee (CTA) through its head, Luis Medina Cantalejo.