"The referee is the great opponent"

Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of CTA This Friday welcomed the first group of members to arrive at Segovia in the refereeing preseason. Welcome served to make the message of this season clear, as he expressed it World of sports on July 1. Message that gives utmost importance to the field referee. “Prominence for the field referee… we are going to referee and then we already have a specific squad of VAR with the best VAR in the world and with the best director of VAR“, insisted the head of the arbitration establishment. Message to insist throughout the preseason and throughout the campaign.

He emphasized again that the end of “last season was exceptional. Congratulations to all for the season you made and to enjoy this stay”. Medina began by highlighting that “the situation, after two years, allowed us to celebrate together” this preseason Segovia.

An initial outrage in which Una and international women’s referees other than those in the women’s Eurocup were summoned: Sánchez Martínez, Cuadra Fernández, Guadalupe Porras and Marta Huerta de Aza.

In the male section it is about Mateu Lahoz, Gil Manzano, Hernández Hernández, Martínez Munuera, Munuera Montero, Soto Grado, Ricardo de Burgos Bengoechea and Carlos del Cerro. In the female section is Olatz Rivera Olmeda, Ainara Andrea Acevedo, Zulema González González and María Dolores Martínez Madrona.

This first course also included two referees who rose in category instead of Jaime Latre and Cordero Vega. The first is incorporated into the particular body of VAR and the Second will be whistled in the silver category.

Is about Juan Luis Pulido Santana and the Galician Javier Iglesias-Villanueva, brother of Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva, was the first of the members of the VAR specific body along with Alvarez Izquierdo and González González. The rest of the five-member body is completed by two former Catalan referees, Estrada Fernández and Medie Jiménez.