He Technical Referees Committee He has put the former referee in his organization chart Turionenzo Álvarezcollegiate who spent 13 years in the First Division, and who was famous in 2007 by Be very close to removing a league to Real Madrid -The known as the 'nail burning'- for its scandalous arbitration in a meeting in Santander. Turienzo Álvarez appears as Manager of the First Division in the new organization chart presented by the CTAwhich has been chaired for a few weeks Francisco Soto Balirac.
We place ourselves. 2006/07 season. Real Madrid of Fabio Capello It is in full comeback in the league to hunt Barcelona, which had become 11 points away. From day 21 he did not lose the Madrid team and from a 3-3 at the Camp Nou (turning point of that season in the League) the white team counted its games for victories … until Turienzo arrived.
In a match in Santander sardineroand with Real Madrid winning 0-1 (placing virtual leader), Turienzo Álvarez left the Madrid team with Two less players (expelled Iván Helguera already Mejía) and He whistled two non -existent penalties in favor of Racing (both scored by Garay, a player who later militated in Madrid). The result was 2-1, Real Madrid moved away from five points from Barcelona and surpassed the Sevilla in the absence of eight days for the end.
Real Madrid ended up winning that league, that of the impossible and epic comebacks, because of the last 12 games he won all … except Turienzo Álvarez in Santander (and the draw in Zaragoza, which ended up being a practical victory for the 'Tamudazo' in the Camp Nou). And because Barcelona punctured, as well as Sevilla. The mistakes of this Basque collegiate, although attached to the Leon Castilian committee, turned the world around.
«Verdugu Turienzo», qualification MARKwith the message “this is the face of the man who moves Real Madrid of the League.” “Very rare things are happening,” they said from the white team's locker room. The national and world press was unanimous: scandal in the league for the arbitration of Turienzo.
The referee came to ensure that after those failures, which left Real Madrid very close to losing that league, He received 50 threats by Telefónica And that marked him throughout his career, although he endured five more years in the elite, since he retired in 2012. That arbitration in Santander occurred in the height of the Barcelona payments to José María Enriquez Negreira, at that time vice president of the Spanish referees.
Although he never became international, Turienzo Álvarez directed Real Madrid in 27 duels in his career, with poor data for the white team, since he only recorded 59% of victories with this referee (percentage well below what Real Madrid usually does, while with Barça he recorded 71% of triumphs) and 26% of defeats. As a curiosity, Turienzo was the collegiate of Two great stumbling blocks of Real Madrid in Copa del Rey: The elimination in Toledo in 2000 and the blushing win in Alcorcón in 2009.
