The repeat offender Iglesias Villanueva

Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva He will no longer sit in the VOR room in front of the television monitors to act as a VAR referee or VAR assistant. The Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) was announced this Tuesday both matches were withdrawn where he is appointed this week (as VAR for Betis-Getafe and as AVAR for Osasuna-Athletic), ending his career as a referee: he will not be appointed for two days that will also remain in championship.

The reason, the mistake made this Sunday by Iglesias Villanueva in Valencia-Real Madrid, where he was accused the main referee was not warned of Hugo Duro’s continued handling of Viniciuswhich he didn’t move on the neck until the Brazilian managed to free himself and hit back with a slap at striker Ché that dislodged the Brazilian, unleashing a veritable storm for Vini’s moves in the Mestalla crowd.

however, this is not the first incident which includes the VAR referee this season. Within Cadiz-Elche of matchday 17, played on January 16, Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva received Elche’s equalizer, the work of Eze Ponce, despite the fact that the replay of the game allows us to verify how the forward of the Alicante team started the play offside. From the VOR room, Del Cerro Grande, the main referee of the match, was not warned about this incident, and the match ended in a tie with one goal.

That cost Iglesias a ‘refrigerator’ week (VAR referees do not usually rest during the season, like the main ones) and led the Galician to ask apologize publicly for your mistake. “I feel anger, rage, pain and annoyance“, he assured, while regretting that “a bad decision of mine has damaged Cádiz CF and I apologize for it to the entity and its fans, who have always respected me. It is easy and difficult at the same time to pronounce these words, as well as obvious and painful: I was wrong“, he concluded.