On Wednesday, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Francisco Soto Balirac announced as the new president of the Scheids committee (CTA), to replace Luis Medina Cantalejo after four years. Yet Real Madrid, one of the most virile opponents of Medina, is not happy with it.
Soto took the position and gave a press conference together with RFEF President Rafael Louzan, who had selected him on Wednesday. He came as something of a left-wing choice, as someone who was not involved as a referee at top level, or high in the CTA. Until now, Soto has been a representative for the Galician football federation, in addition to his position as a high -level tax lawyer.
Real Madrid was just as surprised as the rest of Spain with the arrival of Soto, but Cadena Cope says that Los Blancos is not sufficiently impressed. They had hoped for a 'radical change' and say that although they do not know Soto well, they have their doubts about him and are not convinced by his appointment.
The image of the Santiago Bernabeu is that the arrival of Soto is a superficial change that lobbys for a more independent CTA that is not linked to the RFEF or La Liga. It also frustrated Real Madrid that Soto did not immediately tackle the Negreira case during his press conference, instead prefer to wait for the legal outcome.
In a noisy attempt to exert pressure on the referee -Lobel, Real Madrid TV conducted a campaign of smears on civil servants in the past two seasons, and the disciplinary measures could be confronted after La Liga brought the club to the court of arbitration for sport. In the meantime, Real Madrid also sent an open letter to the RFEF in February and demanded that everyone who crossed paths with former vice-president of the CTA Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, or his son, Javier Negreira, was fired.