He Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) It will appoint two referees and two reserve assistants for each League and Cup match this season to cover any eventuality related to COVID-19.
The president of the CTA, Carlos Velasco Carballo, explained that the objective is to cover “extremely exceptional situations” and “have a normative forecast if the case arises” so that a First-class referee can arbitrate a Second-class match or vice versa and if the case arises and even act with clubs of his own community.
“The scenario is unlikely. We have two reserve referees over two games. This weekend we have Hernández Hernández and Cordero Vega and they could referee any of the ten games. We also have the VAR referees who can change their role, ”he said.
The CTA presented this Thursday the new of the season that will start next weekend in which Neither will hydration breaks be made mandatory that there was in the final stretch of last season and what There will be refreshment breaks when the temperature and humidity are high and make them recommendable.
Accompanied by Carlos Clos Gomez, director of the VAR project, and Alberto Undiano Mallenco, of the Technical Committee of the CTA, Velasco Carballo referred to how the referees have prepared this season with physical tests and seminars in which they have shared more than 200 videos “seeking the desired unification of criteria,” as he said.