THE Royal Spanish Football Federation was forced to deny a news item that appeared in digital media this Wednesday morning Relief in which he reports that Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of Technical Commission of Referees and the VAR referee Jorge Figueroa Vazquez “They almost came to blows at the last referees’ meeting.” All this is said to have happened in Las Caldas (Oviedo), where they carried out the referees’ pre-season between July 28 and August 1.
On a clarifying note, the Royal Spanish Football Federation denied the information given this Wednesday morning. “Louis Medina Cantalejo, President of the Technical Commission of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and the referees Jorge Figueroa Vázquez and José María Sánchez Martinez“categorically denies the information published this Wednesday in a media outlet,” the statement begins.
THE RFEF took it upon himself to categorically deny the information from this digital medium that says the following: “Despite the “good vibrations” that can be seen in the images broadcast by the Technical Commission of Referees (…) which was the protagonist a few days later in the conversations between referees. It was not the lack of training, but the “connection” that they had Luis Medina Cantalejo, President of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), and Jorge Figueroa Vázquez, one of the referees relegated last season who is now part of the specific VAR group. “There was a whole scandal,” they explain. to the point that “another colleague”, José María Sánchez Martínez, had to separate them.”
And that’s what the RFEFwhich denies it exhaustively and where he reports that the lawyers of the president of the referees and of the two referees involved in this false information have handed the matter over to the courts: “They neither had any discussion, nor were they about to come to blows.” and they were not separated by anyone as reported, totally false. “Luis Medina Cantalejo, Jorge Figueroa Vázquez and José María Sánchez Martínez have entrusted this matter to their lawyers so that they can take the corresponding legal measures.”
The Federation requests a rectification
But the information from Relief It doesn’t stay there. The digital medium, which is part of the group Vocentoemphasizes current events and informs – before the declaration of the Federation– that “Figueroa Vázquez does not forgive Medina Cantalejo for having relegated him without having reached “the age”, that is, the 45 years at which, with few exceptions, the CTA decides not to renew any first division referee despite “that of the refereeing leaders, to avoid legal problems because it is an unconstitutional measure, they disguise it as a “technical criterion”.
Finally, the writing of the Royal Spanish Football Federation requests and asks the media concerned to rectify the information. “Furthermore, the legal services of the RFEF will exercise the right of rectification and are also analyzing the systematic publication of defamatory articles that only aim to harm the image of the CTA,” the press release states.
