The ‘punishment’ of some referees protagonists of the controversies in the Professional League continues: who doesn’t direct the next appointment?

Referees make mistakes. On the pitch, go and pass, but also off the field. It is well known, just as a footballer can miss the ball, a referee can not see a hold in the area, just as a taxi driver takes a wrong turn and so on with all the professions and trades that can be set as an example. To err humanum estthe Latin expression that says “to err is human” does not have a specific owner, but it accounts for a notion that accompanies humanity, at least in the last 2000 years.

But the referees are also wrong with their silence. The individual and the company. VAR is silent: No one but the people involved know what they are saying. What was the dialogue while Guido Carrillo raised his teeth from the ground after the elbow given to him by Javier Toledo in the last match Estudiantes – Sarmiento? What criteria does it use to evaluate the “impact” that German dolphin Wasn’t it enough for Banfield-Independiente on the same date when, in the penalty area, Santiago Hidalgo grabbed Nicolás Sosa Sánchez’s shirt while trying to score a goal?

Prior to the upcoming arbitration appointments, the National Director of Arbitration From AFA and also General secretary of the Argentine Association of Referees (AAA), Federico BeligoyI would have had one meeting via Zoom with all those having the ability to run the First Division in which he reportedly contested the two aforementioned actions and others.

Round 6, the next one, will not have Delfino on the pitch, but sitting at the VAR Gymnastics – Colombo. In those positions they will no longer be Diego Abal -was on the screen the day of the teeth of Carrillo- neither Paul Dovalo -responsible for images of the Banfield field-, as in the previous date it was not Mauro Viglianowho canceled a goal from the table Argentinians What would the draw against River at the Monument Stadium.

Are they “stopped”, then? There are no official details on the referees’ absences. Before, the understatement was that they failed the physical test. Nothing now. What are the referees silent when they hide their dialogue? Should his absences be interpreted as hidden punishments? Isn’t the union surprised by the sudden absence of some of its members from office? There are questions, but no answers. The arbitrators consulted by art clarion They didn’t even have the courtesy to apologize for not returning a stimulus to the question asked.

“Armando, he won’t answer you”he told her in 1996 Carlos Navarro Montoya TO Diego Maradonawhen the captain of Mouth I asked Javier Castrilli an explanation for your expulsion. Apparently, the small vocation for dialogue is a characteristic of the profession.

On the AFA page in the section on College of arbitrators there are three posts. The newer one goes nowhere and throws an error. The other two date back to the time of Super League and the only one that opens is the appointment of referees for the match Reservation between Estudiantes – Banfield and Vélez – San Lorenzo de 2019.

The last press release signed by Beligoy was last year, before the World Cup and responds to his union work. In November, the AAA announced that, given the “complaints and harassment” it had received from “footballers and journalists”, the association would begin sending documentary letters to its detractors.

Between absences and returns, the referees are already here for the next appointment. There are six per game: the principal, his two assistants, the fourth, plus the VAR and the AVAR, remotely. They will have matches with hits and misses, and without public explanations, some won’t lead the next. Then those who weren’t there will return and with this dynamic a wheel that seems to never stop will be completed.

That phrase “to err is human” in Latin is completed with “sed perseverare diabolicum”; which means something like this to persevere in error is diabolical.