Francisco Soto Balirac, new president of the Technical Referees Committeehe attended this Wednesday to the media in his official presentation from the Las Rozas Soccer City and has mentioned Real Madrid after the controversies with the previous arbitration dome during the last months. Francisco Soto He wanted to settle that theme and leave behind the “controversies” with the white club.
«You have to put the counter to zero and be constructive. It is not time to enter controversies that make no sense. Empathy, trust and among all we are going to get the arbitration collective where it has to be. In my opinion, they are specific issues that contribute anything. Construction, it is a new era. You have to leave behind all those possible controversies. The future will be another much better for everyone, ”he explained Francisco Soto About the relationship between CTA and the Real Madrid From now on after his new appointment.
The lawyer Francisco Soto Balirac It was announced this Wednesday as the new president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), assuming this new “no less” challenge of being responsible for Spanish arbitration and giving a term of “10-15 days” to communicate the rest of its team.
«We have seen in the person of Fran his capacity for management, leadership and, above all, to build bridges and make great teams. He assumes this new challenge, which is not a minor challenge, ”said the president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, in an event held in the City of Las Rozas football in which the details of which will be a new work structure and the new model of the arbitration system for Spanish football were offered.
Soto announced that “from here to 10-15 days” will communicate its new team to direct the arbitration estate. “I like to work hard as a team, we are going to form a team as powerful as possible to try to bring arbitration to the greatest possible levels at national and international level,” he said.
The new head of the CTA also outlined the master lines of this new stage, as well as the new structure. Thus, Soto will replace the board of directors that existed so far with “a functional structure with responsibilities and responsible in each area.” In addition to his position, there will be a spokesman, who “with total security will be an ex -arter”, to transfer the criteria and other issues to the rest of the world of football.
There will also be a technical director who will be “the cornerstone of that team”, with the responsibility of all the formation and the entire technical part, helped by a team at his disposal with a First Division Manager, Second Division, First RFEF, Second RFEF and Assistants.
In addition, there will be a person responsible for that same height. ” “It will be of very relevant importance in this system because the VAR is something that we also have to try to advance and reach situations of maximum uniformity in the criteria,” he said.
And this will join an artificial intelligence manager. «It is a way of showing the relevance that this progress will have for us. The advance is technology, it is artificial intelligence. Any facet of life today in any social sphere and also in the world of arbitration it is essential to have the tools provided by artificial intelligence for the improvement of all processes, without prejudice, it will not replace people, ”he made clear.
«Decisions are going to be people's decisions. Artificial intelligence comes to help, not to replace. With this objective and with this premise we will work in that area, ”he added about this novelty, adding that there will also be a responsible for women's football, room and beach football.
«I ask everyone for football. In what we all agree, we are going to start it and what is not, we will continue with dialogue, dialogue, dialogue and more dialogue to see if we are able to have the collective have all the needs that all the actors in the world of football are demanding, “he defended, before listing that the principles of this new stage will be” meritocracy, independence, transparency and objectivity. “
In addition, a commission for unification of criteria will be created, in which exceum and former players will participate, so that “without vote, but in voice, they can be in meetings where the arbitration scope decides how to act in different situations.” However, he made it clear that he does not see that they can participate directly in the VAR, but only as actors to which to consult certain aspects.
