The new Technical Referees Committee is beginning to suffer its first problems only ten after officially announcing the new work team. In the last hours, Aitor Villate Martínez has resigned, who was going to be in charge of being the head of the assistant referees. You cannot compatible this position with your profession.
First setbacks for Francisco Soto Balirac in charge of the new and renewed Technical Referees Committee. The head of the assistant referees has left his position. Aitor Villate Martínez He was appointed by Fran Soto Just ten days ago. Now, the new CEO of the CTA will have to look for a new substitute.
Villate martínez He has been forced to resign his position by checking in the first person during the First Division Referees Seminar that is being carried out during these days in Asturias the great workload that this new responsibility implies. Soto Balirac will have to name a new collegiate in the coming weeks for this position that is now vacant.
The rest of the team of Technical Referees Committee It is still formed by: David Fernández Borbalán (technical person in charge of the CTA), Eduardo Prieto ChurchS (responsible for the VAR), Marta Frías Acedo (spokesperson and institutional relations), Yolanda Parga (female responsible), Álvaro Cid Bragado (Football, beach and wheelchairs) and Chema Alonso (Technological Innovation and IA). In addition, other former arbitrators appear as responsible for different categories of Spanish football: Turienzo Álvarez (1st Division), López Acera (2nd Division), Pérez Lasa and Sánchez Marcos (First RFEF), and Gorostegui Fernández-Ortega and Ávalos Martos (Second RFEF).
A new Technical Referees Committee which is found during these days in Asturias with the beginning of the preseason for the First Division members and the presentation of the new positions to the referees of the Spanish football elite.
These were the first words of Soto Balirac since this first seminar of the season: «Very excited. The reception of the referees has been extraordinary, and well, wanting to start working with illusion and with much confidence that everything will go well. We are going to make a very cohesive team to fight for Spanish arbitration. In these first days, what I want is that those basic and inspiring principles that are even in the general regulation of the Federation, we will start, we must already think about concrete measures to lower the earth to detail. Meritocracy, transparency, independence, predictability … football has to be predictable. The arbitration performance also for all football actors ».
