The new referee union has already begun to act and has done so by pressing the president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, to keep Luis Medina Cantalejo at the head of Referee Technical Committee. The members who head this association, which was born under the name of AESAF (Spanish Association of Soccer Referees), They have met with the president, also with the presence of the still president of the CTA and Rubinos Pérez, his number two.
At that meeting, Sánchez Martínez, Pizarro Gómez, Cuadra Fernández, Gil Manzano y Martínez Munuera They have been in charge of presenting the union with which they want to defend their interests and, as González Fuertes announced before the Cup final, take measures against Real Madrid for the videos made by his television.
In the appointment with Louzán, The referees have transferred the intentions they have with the birth of AESAF. In addition, they wanted to show their support to the current arbitration dome, just before the meetings planned to define the reform of the arbitration system. At the request of the clubs, the RFEF will completely change the CTA, in which it is presupposed as the end of Medina Cantalejo.
According to account Asin addition to presenting the union, they have transferred their intention to stay linked to the RFEF. It should be remembered that this reform of arbitration seeks to Technical Referees Committee Have greater independence, while now depends exclusively on the Federation.
Given this situation, and after the anger escalation by the clubs of the Liga, led by him Real Madrid, The referees have sought the way they consider protecting themselves, with the creation of Aesaf. In this way, they can act against what they say are attacks by clubs towards their honorability and their work. In fact, González Fuertes threatened Real Madrid before the Cup final with measures that will be the ones that take with this new union, for the complaints of the white team about the controversial arbitrations that have occurred against him this season.
On June 16, the BOE resolution He pointed out that Carlos El Cerro Grande –Arbiter of Var–, Pablo González Fuertes, Alejandro Hernández Hernández, César Soto Grade, Guillermo Cuadra Fernández, José María Sánchez Martínez, Jesús Gil Manzano y Juan Martínez Munuera They had been in charge of signing the statutes and the Aesaf Constitution Act, as promoters.
A few days later, three of them, accompanied by Pizarro Gómez, have met with Louzán To present it and, incidentally, show your support for the CTA dome, led by Medina Cantalejo. Everything, a few days after this arbitration reform is shaped that could lead to the dismissal of the current direction of the referees, since under their command the level of Spanish arbitration has touched the background, to the point of not being taken into account by FIFA for the Club World Cup, where there are referees of Congo, El Salvador or Mauritania.
