Medina Cantalejo responds to Ancelotti: “Referees don’t invent”

The president of Referees Technical Committee (CTA), Luis Medina Cantalejoadopted this Wednesday in relation to the statements of the coach of real Madrid, Carlo Ancelottiabout the penalty equalizing the Girona in Santiago Bernabeu (1-1) that “referees are wrong or right, but they do not invent”.

On visiting the Melilla with his representative in the CTA Presidency, Antonio Rubinos Perez, Medina Cantalejo He referred, to questions from journalists, to the controversy that arose after Ancelotti complained about the performance of the referee, when he said about that penalty in favor of Girona already Marco Asensio “he did not touch the ball with his hand” and the same VAR like collegiate “they invented it”.

“We do not make any kind of statements about the plays, among other things because it has already passed the instruction of the Judge of the Competition -after the opening of a procedure to study this case- for him to decide about the coach’s statements. real Madridwho for me is a very educated person,” said the head of the arbitration group.

Medina Cantalejo He admitted that in this sense Ancelotti is a coach who “never gave any kind of problems”, although, at the same time, he clarified that “a referee may or may not make a mistake, but what he does not . did things.”

Regarding other types of actions or opinions, he indicated that he abstains “absolutely” because he understands that this is not his “function”, adding: “that is the purpose of the judges to determine what it is and, what are the actions of the game, I don’t have any, we just have to stick to what our videos and our instructions were at the beginning of the season, which was criticized a lot.”

He also maintained that the standard of the hands has not changed, referring to the fact that the Madrid player Asensio published in his social networks the action in which his hand whistled and highlighted that at the beginning of the season he was told that it will not be taught.

“I just ask that in our meeting with the media that you go to that video and see what we thought of one play and the other, and from there everyone draw their conclusions and consequences,” stressed by Medina.

In addition, he made the following point: “I’m not talking about true Madrid nor of Barcelonaor of Legs nor of Albacete. The rules are what they are and some are highly interpreted, and precisely for that we had the meeting with the teams,” he said, where he remembered that they projected videos that were “very clarifying about what a hand is.”

In this matter, according to the president of CTA“What we said at the beginning is the same as what we say now, but when someone says: ‘that was in another game…’ Tell me which one, but if that happened and the referee made a mistake, then he made a mistake” , he insisted.

“The rule, the interpretation and the instructions have not changed, because what was said at the beginning of time is exactly the same as what is said today,” he reiterated.

For Medina. that “do they know the referees”.

“At the beginning of the season, I commented that there were hand movements that were very gray, that squeaked and were difficult to see because of the position of the arm, which was not open or closed, or quite the opposite,” said the president of the arbitration establishment, which It is also regrettable that, in his opinion, his explanations before the start of the League.

He remembered that then he said that “it is not a hand if the ball goes out, towards the fifth amphitheater or band, without a second possibility of a shot”, an extreme that in some controversies was transferred “to another. play that in no way has to do” in his comments before the start of the season.

Even, Medina admitted that “it is a complicated rule because it leaves a huge percentage to the interpretation of the referee and, within all that said, it is to try to sanction only the hands that are very clear”, while he was satisfied with low number. hands sanctioned compared to last season.

“For everyone talking and criticizing, last year fifteen or sixteen hands were sanctioned, but this season we’re halfway there. It doesn’t mean the referees are right, far from it, but the number of hand”, specified the head of the arbitration.