The main referee of the final of the Copa del Rey Mapfre this Saturday in Seville between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, the Basque Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea, said this Friday that “there is no right” to live what the members are suffering in Spain, in reference to the constant criticisms and also to the signal they suffer from the media and, in particular, in the videos of Real Madrid TV appearance
“There is no right to what we are happening many companions, not only of soccer Professional, also from base football, because it affects our families. That each one reflects where we want to go, what we want from sport and football“He said at a press conference from the Cartuja of Seville, a fief of the final, when asked about those videos of the White Club television channel.
Just before, the Basque collegiate got excited and cried when he explained what happens in his family. “When a son of yours goes to school and tells him that his father is a 'thief' and arrives home crying, that is very screwed. What I do in my case is to try to educate my son to tell him that his father is honored, that he is wrong, as one more athlete. He is very screwed, he does not want anyone. The day I leave here, I want my son to be proud of what his father was and what is arbitration, which has given us many values“, he was honest.
And that at the beginning of the appearance, in the first of the various allusions to those videos, he tried to be colder. “I find it indifferent to make the videos they make, they are usually harmful criticism against the estate, against me, against any partner. They will see what they have to do. I look at the navel and I know what I have to do, little more to add to those videos they do,” he said.
What you feel when you whistle this final, believe it is “one more game.” “The preparation is very emotional, unlike a league match. There are many technical players and with a lot of speed so the placement is very difficult. It marks what you can find. It has all the characteristics to be a great game and at the same time that there are situations controversial for us by the type of game,” he acknowledged.
“You come with the concern of doing well and not failing people, all your classmates and that criticisms are the possible minors. There will always be controversy and we don't know where it will come. The interpretable things will be people who say that it is one or another. You have to focus on the gameobviously I do not come to suffer in the final but with the concentration of being focused, “he added.
Asked if it is the VAR who really whips, for the many interventions he does, he denied it. “We have not lost prominence, we make mistakes and that is why we go to the VAR. There is a margin of improvement and we have to adjust at certain times the sanctioning criteria, but at no time I let me make the decision for me from the VAR. The referee is the last one who makes the decision in the field. If they call me, I will decide whether or not I maintain the decision,” he argued.
And he explained the typical gesture of taking his hand to his ear and making a waiting signal with the other: “The gesture we make is always made so that people who are at home or in the stadium know that he is checking. All plays, but the gesture is so that everyone was calm. The ear to the ear is to check, but does not mean that he is not making decisions.”
On the other hand, Burgos Bengoetxea acknowledged that arbitration is passing a “quite complicated” cycle. “But, being honest and having made mistakes, the current level is not bad. We have improvement route and we have to continue working, but the players have to be satisfied,” he said.
Together with Burgos Bengoetxea he appeared who will be his assistant in the VAR, the Asturian Pablo González Fuertes, who was very critical of the current situation of the referees and announced for the next few days a news in reference to a possible strike, or prominent action, from the CTA that will “make history.”
“There is more union than ever, possibly because of the circumstances that we have to live around us. A few weeks ago we had a meeting and we are more united than ever. Let's endorse that union with our president, Luis Medina. You do not have any doubt that we are going to have to start taking much more serious measures than are being taken, “he began.
“We are not going to continue allowing what is happening.
González Fuertes went even beyond Burgos Bengoetxea by criticizing those threats they receive and, also, to regret the content of white television videos. “I think we are wrong on the way, because that will have consequences, we do not know who and how that message is captured and the day will come when we have problems. Who will take care of that problem? We have to try to give a solution to this environment of belligerence that is in football with the arbitration estate,” he said.
“I wanted to talk about the consequences of these videos, because we are seeing for weeks as social networks are insulting the referees and how they attack our group. We are seeing 'Community Manager' officials attacking our group for a couple of 'likes', and we are seeing communications. The problem of this is the consequence of this happening. When some communicators or journalists even speak of robbery, what entails is that the fan, that frustration does not pay it with us but pays it with the boy and the girl who takes a whistle and has to go to whistle a child. The consequence is that they then put the target a partner in the head. We have to return to a much healthier and more clean football, “he asked.
Finally, he talked about the possibility of offering postparted press conferences to explain arbitration decisions. “What would you ask? Everything that is formative or opened to the world of football our estate; one hundred percent. But if they are going to ask us about a play 'X' at a given time and with the scarf put, then we generate what you have to stop generating; a violence that entails unpleasant situations,” he valued.
Reaction of Real Madrid
Real Madrid will not officially request the change of the referees of the Copa del Rey final, Ricardo de Burgos Bengoechea (principal) and Pablo González Fuertes (responsible for the VAR), and hopes that it is the Royal Spanish Football Federation itself (RFEF) that takes the passage through what it considers a conflict of interest.
The statements made in the appearance in La Cartuja by the main colleges of the Copa final, by Burgos Bengoechea and González Fuertes, have generated astonishment in Real Madrid, according to Efe sources from the club.
Real Madrid, which this Saturday is measured to Barcelona in the Cup final, does not understand how the Federation has allowed the statements and expects an answer that invalidates the two members to lead the game.
According to official sources of the Madrid club, both Burgos Bengoechea and González Fuertes are incapacitated to direct the final and point to a conflict of interest after listening to their words.
De Burgos regretted in tears “the impact of Real Madrid Televisión” against his estate and criticized what they cause in society, putting as an example as in school the children of referees listen that his father is a thief. “
While González Fuertes demanded that “stop putting the target” in the members because one day “a real misfortune” will happen, and announced that the arbitral estate, the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) will take measures because “this will not continue to endure this.”
