Spain is the country with the most FIFA refereeing instructors according to UEFA’s list of 22 officials made official by world football’s highest body. The list of six confederations relying on FIFA has a total of 90 trainers and Europe is the association with the most instructors ahead of CAF, with 18 and 16 from COMMEBOL.
And Spain can be proud of being the country with the most trainers FIFA around the world, with a total of four. Only Argentina has the same number in the South American confederation. In the case of Europe, only Italy is close to the Spanish representative with three arbitration representatives from the transalpine country.
A Spanish representation where the former assistant was present Maria Luisa Villa. The assistant who will soon participate in the First Division continued to perform the duties of an observer delegate in Spanish football until 2018 when he became responsible for professional football assistants with Velasco Carballo as referee president. At the end of 2021, he abandoned the current arbitration structure.
Villa is one of six women chosen by FIFA, which means a female representation of almost 30%. Marisa Villa is joined by Ingrid Jonsson from Sweden, Silvia Spinelli from Italy, Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb from Germany, Dagmar Dankova from the Czech Republic and Jenny Palmqivst. Another example of the increasing growth of women in FIFA refereeing
Medina Cantalejo is also among the trainers
The Spanish representative, in addition to Marisa Villa, is led by the current president of the arbitration body, Luis Medina Cantalejo. The head of the CTA is joined by Clos Gómez, who is currently the director of VAR technology for Spain in both the First and Second divisions.
The third of the four Spanish members is the former Andalusian collegiate David Fernandez Borbalan who retired from Spanish arbitration in 2018. Later, and at the same time as Velasco Carballo came to the presidency of the CTA, he works on the structure of arbitration within the training of referees of the First RFEF until December 2021.
Their job is to attend international tournaments organized by FIFA, starting with the World Cup for full teams, and where they are in charge of training referees. Both the fields and the VARs. Training for matches and where they are taught in all aspects (match management, incidents in areas, disciplinary issues, field positioning or teamwork). Training that they do in training on the field during the previous concentration or in the FIFA tournament. In international relations, the president of Premier referees, Howard Webb, stands out.
Source: La Verdad
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