The next day of the League that will be the end of the season in First will mean the farewell of two of the twenty referees of the highest category of Spanish football. This is the Andalusian Melero López and the Asturian González Fuertes. González Fuertes reaches 45 years in a matter of weeks. It will be next June 8 when you meet this age. While there is no set limit already in the CTA, it is usually the scheduled age to give way to generations of referees.
The Asturian leaves after eight seasons in the First Division where he debuted on August 27, 2017 in a Espanyol-Leganés. This season takes 19 days that will be completed next weekend. He has been meetings like the two Barcelona-Getafe in addition to being the arbitrator of Var of the last Copa del Rey between Barcelona and Real Madrid, with the defense that made the arbitration estate at the press conference of the previous day and that caused Real Madrid's reaction to refuse to train and go to the press conference.
González Fuertes also retires
In the case of Melero López, it will be on July 2 when he will turn 46 years old and after enjoying this last campaign with 45. In the case of the Andalusian there are ten seasons that he has been in the elite of arbitration, where he debuted on August 24, 2014 in a Celta de Vigo-Getafe. Eighteen are the days he has been in this season, which will join the next weekend where he will put the climax to his career. In the Cup, the quarterfinals between the Royal Society and Osasuna have come to whistle.
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Neither of them reached internationality and will become part of the specific body of VAR, a body that the CTA will increase so that they are the ones who act from the Vor room instead of the field referees. There are already Trujillo Suárez, Pizarro Gómez, Carlos del Cerro, Javier Iglesias Villanueva and Jorge Figueroa Vázquez. To these are added the second ones, where Iván Caparrós, Raúl Martín González, José Antonio López Toca, Luis Mario Milla, David Gálvez Rascon and Aitor Gorostegui are.
Soto grade remains in doubt
And then there is the case of Soto Grade. The Riojan will be on June 17 when he also reaches 45 years old. In the case of the International it is not safely if you retire or continue one more campaign in the elite of arbitration. Something that will decide in the coming weeks although everything indicates that it will continue because it has made a good season and where it has had important designations. The derby between Espanyol has just whispered
and Barcelona in addition to the Madrid derby between Real Madrid and Atlético at Santiago Bernabéu. He was also a candidate to whistle the final of the Copa del Rey. That does not mean that, in case of continuing, it loses its internationality on January 1, 2026. That position indicates that it will be occupied by the Balearic Busquets Ferrer.
