The president of the Referee Committee (CTA) Luis Medina Cantalejo has come out to deny Real Madrid's allegations about the officials in Spain, after their open letter to the president of the Royal Football Federation (RFEF) Rafael Louzan. In the letter, the referees in Spain are accused of corrupt and robbery blank of awards.
Real Madrid sent a letter of four pages, published on their website and signed by the secretary of the board, claiming that they were specifically damaged by the referee in La Liga. In the letter they demand reform in the CTA and the dismissing of officials who were active during the period ex-Vice President Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira was in power. He is currently being investigated for sporting corruption between 2001 and 2017, when he received more than € 7 million in payments from Barcelona.
In an interview with El Chiringuito, as worn by Sport, Medina explained that although the referees can make mistakes, they are in no way unfair.
“I don't have to be ashamed of anything. Neither my colleagues nor I am corrupt at all. We may be very incompetent, we may be very bad, but I guarantee you that we will not be corrupt. “
“The referees are not going to damage someone with the intention. Despite what statements, letters or television say, we are honest. Nobody goes on the field with the idea of damaging someone. '
About the decision not to send Carlos Romero for his challenge on Kylian Mbappe, the central theme of the complaints of Real Madrid, Medina indicated everything that it was a mistake.
“What everyone sees, a referee and two varied officials cannot see. I am very clear about what happened, everyone has seen it, although I not only refers to Mbappe's action … If it is black and white and white, it is clear and the referee chooses black, I can't do you give an explanation. “
In the meantime, former referee Eduardo Iturral Gonzalez has revealed to Cadena SER that the referees and the CTA feel that they have been hung to dry by the RFEF. While the federation 'regretted' the tone 'of the complaints of Real Madrid on Monday, however, it did not condemn the complaints themselves. It has also been reported that referees are considering strike action.
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