After what happened in Mestalla, the Spanish Football Federation has agreed with the Technical Committee of Referees to do without Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva, the VAR manager at Valencia-Real Madrid. In the Federation they do not understand that the referee did not show De Burgos Bengoetxea the complete sequence in the action between Hugo Duro and Vinícius, which ended with the expulsion of the Real Madrid player.
The reaction of the Federation has been immediate and according to federative sources to EFE, the arbitration direction of the referee De Burgos Bengoechea was unbeatable, the way in which he handled the racist insults to Vinícius, and he was led to the error in the expulsion because he was hid a part of a video. From the VAR, only Vinícius's blow to Hugo Duro was shown to the referee and not the previous grab on the Brazilian's neck.
Real Madrid criticized in a statement the action of the expulsion of Vinícius in Valencia and urged the RFEF to take action. "We do not perceive the management that was carried out by the referees and the VAR as something isolated, but as something that has been repeated in many of our matches. The victim who suffers it can never be held responsible for the crime," he lamented. the white entity.
Both Iglesias Villanueva, who is appointed tonight for the league match between Real Betis and Getafe, as well as five more VAR referees will leave their post, RFEF sources told EFE. Today will be his last game, since he will be fired without waiting for the season to end. In Las Rozas they consider that the mistake in Mestalla is an action that adds to a long list of complaints from clubs.
The other five referees will finish the season. The two names that have come out are those of José Luis González González and Xavier Estrada Fernández, who will not be able to continue after completing the maximum two years that one can be in the position. As it happens, both referees have been linked to the Negreira case in recent months. In the case of Estrada Fernández, complaining against Negreira in an action that was not liked by the arbitration body. For his part, González González was accompanied by Negreira's son to a match at the Camp Nou in 2015.
