Medina Cantalejo: “We want an agile, fast and precise arbitration”
MADRID, 10 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Medina Cantalejo, and the director of the VAR project, Carlos Clos Gómez, have presented this Tuesday the semi-automated offside that will be put into operation for the first time in a RFEF competition in the Spanish Super Cup.
The referees will use this system in the first official tournament of 2023 that will face Valencia and Real Madrid, on Wednesday, and Real Betis and FC Barcelona, on Thursday, in the semifinals in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) until Sunday, January 15.
Through the semi-automated detection of offside, the refereeing teams will be able to point out these actions in a faster and more efficient way, as the president of the CTA and the director of the VAR Project explained on Tuesday.
Luis Medina Cantalejo has pointed out that it is a system already used by FIFA during the last World Cup in Qatar 2022 and that it will help make “refereeing more agile, fast and efficient”.
“After using the goal/no goal technology three years ago in Jeddah, now we will use a pioneering system in a domestic competition”, stressed Carlos Clos Gómez, stressing that “it is an aid to refereeing and an aid to football”.
Both managers have confirmed that explanatory meetings have been held with the participating clubs to present this technology, which was publicly shown to informants on Tuesday through a descriptive video.
Medina Cantalejo affirmed that for the Super Cup they have “three international referees of the highest level”. “We must protect the players and minimize the risk of injury. The criteria on the hands and the rest of the application of the regulations is the same for everyone and identical from the beginning of the season. The level of successes is much higher than that of errors, although you always have to try to improve”, concluded the president of the CTA.