MADRID, 14 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) condemned this Friday “strongly the threats and public harassment” to which its president and former referee Luis Medina Cantalejo has been subjected after the match between Rayo Vallecano and Betis, and requested the clubs ” an exercise of responsibility” in the forms of communication with their fans.
According to several media reports, the Police had to go to the home of the former Andalusian referee after social networks encouraged him to go to that place after what happened in the meeting held in Vallecas, an arbitration of which the Verdiblanco club itself He had complained on his official ‘Twitter’ account.
In addition, one of his advisers, José María Gallego, also wrote on the social network that “the reign, exceeding the expectations of the planned script” of Medina Cantalejo, elected new president of the CTA at the end of November to replace Carlos Velasco Carballo, was beginning.
“The referees of the First and Second Division want to strongly condemn through these lines an event that we consider extremely serious. The threats received and the public harassment to which Luis Medina and his family have been subjected cannot happen again”, said a statement from the CTA.
The body thanked the federative president Luis Rubiales for making “a defense” of the group and the former referee “at a particularly sad moment for Spanish arbitration” and recalled that “within the values of football and sport there is no place for this type of behavior “. “For this reason, we convey to the president of our CTA the maximum support and affection of the entire group,” he added.
“In the same way that we accept that this sport and our profession is exposed to error and criticism, we ask all football agents, especially clubs, to exercise responsibility in communicating with their members and fans to prevent them from becoming regret situations such as those recently experienced and even more serious”, the referees sentenced.
Last Wednesday it was Luis Rubiales himself who came out in defense of the president of the CTA. “He has our full support. We don’t like to be talking until the wee hours of the morning with the Police and the Civil Guard, we don’t like this and we have to eradicate it. Criticism is one thing and another to accuse the referees of bias or even worse things, or attacks at a referee’s house. This has to end,” he said during the Spanish Super Cup Classic at the Movistar + microphone.