2023-06-28 07:30:16
BarcelonaThe summary of the Negreira Case brought to light the identity of 6 referees who made payments by bank transfer to Javi Enríquez, the son of the former vice-president of the referees who acted as coaching. In professional football, those highlighted were Alberola Rojas, Jaime Latre and Medié Jiménez, from the First Division, and De la Fuente Ramos and Vicandi Garrido, from the Second Division. Even so, the shadow of Negreira was extensive and payments were also identified from a member of the Primera RFEF: Carlos Calderiña Pavón. The Sabadell member was the only Catalan who played in the bronze category of Spanish football and his association with Negreira has cost him his head: they have relegated him to Segona. No other member has lost this category. Luis Medina Cantalejo, the president of the Technical Committee of Arbitrators (CTA), has completely cut off any ties with the old regime and when it came to deciding the future of the Valaisan, he put down his thumb.
Calderiña experienced the peak of his career in the 2017/18 season, when he was 27 years old. It was just his second campaign in Segona B and he whistled a Murcia-Elche de play-off of ascent Then the CTA was chaired by Victoriano Sánchez Arminio and its vice president, José María Enríquez Negreira, stirred the cherries. Calderiña was told that next year he would whistle in the Second Division, but the sock was turned when Luis Rubiales won the elections to the RFEF and made Velasco Carballo sit in the referee’s chair. The Madrid player made many decisions in a short time and handed over the responsibility for Second B promotions to the manager of the category: Medina Cantalejo. The current president of the CTA cut off the meteoric projection of a referee who, curious of fate, has crashed once again against the sentence of the former Andalusian referee.
In a group as presidential as the CTA, the top leader is the one who decides all promotions and relegations, and this year Medina Cantalejo has spared no effort in setting up a tailor-made squad for next season. At the outset, the Madrilenian Committee has been swept away and to the withdrawal of Carlos del Cerro Grande has been added the descent of Valentín Pizarro Gómez. With these moves, next year there will only be two Madrid players in the professional league. A very significant fact that contrasts with the rise of the Andalusians: 7 referees between the First and Second Division. Once again, the region of origin of the CTA president ends up having a direct influence on the configuration of the categories.
A new Catalan whistle in Primera
Víctor Garcia Verdura has ascended to the top category at just 28 years old. The talented referee from Sant Iscle de Vallalta has completed a meteoric career and his two seasons in Segona have been enough to convince the CTA. He will fill the void left by Estrada Fernández and Medié Jiménez in the 2020/21 season, when Velasco Carballo left the Catalan Committee an orphan of representation.
No trace of Mateu Lahoz
Antonio Mateu Lahoz has said neither donkey nor beast since his farewell was made public. He could have followed in the footsteps of Del Cerro Grande and become part of the specific body of VAR, but he declined this option and today it is not known whether the 2023/24 season will step on the turf of some exotic championship or he will prefer to rest in his Algímia of native Alfara.
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