Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of the CTA welcomed this Friday the first group of members who have come to Segovia in the refereeing preseason. Welcome that has served to make the message of this season clear, as he declared to Sports world last July 1. Message that gives the utmost importance to the field referee. “Prominence for the field referee… we are going to referee and then we already have a specific squad of WAS with the best WAS in the world and with the best director of WAS“, asserted the head of the arbitration establishment. Message that will insist throughout the preseason and throughout the campaign.
He has highlighted again that the end of “last season was exceptional. Congratulations to all for the season you have done and to enjoy this stay”. Medina began by highlighting that “the situation, after two years, has allowed us to celebrate together” this preseason in Segovia.
A first anger where the First and women’s international referees are summoned except those who are in the women’s Eurocup: Sánchez Martínez, Cuadra Fernández, Guadalupe Porras and Marta Huerta de Aza.
In the male section it is about Matthew Lahoz, Gil Manzano, Hernandez Hernandez, Martinez Munuera, Munuera Montero, Sixth Grade, Ricardo de Burgos Bengoechea and Carlos Del Cerro. In the female section are Olatz Rivera Olmeda, Ainara Andrea Acevedo, Zulema Gonzalez Gonzalez and Maria Dolores Martinez Madrona.
Also present in this first course are the two referees who rise in category instead of Jaime Latre and Cordero Vega. The first is incorporated into the specific body of WAS and the Second will whistle in the silver category.
Is about Juan Luis Pulido Santana and the Galician Javier Iglesias-Villanueva, brother of Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva, the first of the members of the specific VAR body along with Alvarez Izquierdo and González González. The rest of the specific body of five members is completed by the two former Catalan referees, Estrada Fernández and Medie Jiménez.
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