Crisis with the VAR: the untold story and the fierce interior after the mistake in Ginnastica vs Sarmiento

A note that made noise, the rumor of a dismissal and a meeting in Ezeiza. All in the middle of The biggest crisis in memory in Argentine arbitration. THE AFA rocked last night when Juan José Jozamimember of the Disciplinary Tribunal, proposed to play again Gymnastics-Sarmiento. Paul Tovigginoexecutive secretary of the AFAasked his head. The same former journalist and lawyer, in dialogue with clarionHe assured that he still hasn’t received any calls. “But if I have to go, I’ll go,” she challenged her.

At the same time, this noon in the property of Lionel Andrés Messi, Frederick Beligoy meeting the whistlers and pulling on their ears. The Chief Referee, instead of taking responsibility for their driving errors, suggested that there were no leaks to the press. Neither “inside”.

“I would play the match again, even more with the referee’s acknowledgment. I would reschedule it for another day and with another referee. The goal could also be validated and give it to the cattle the game to gymnastics,” Jozami said in an interview with the program on Monday sensations (Radio Del Pueblo AM 830).

A little later, inside get out of the way (Continental Radio AM 590), Fernando Mitjans He came out to clarify the situation. “It is impossible for the Gimnasia-Sarmiento match to be played again. We are forbidden to play a game again due to a referee error. In other countries the matches were played again but because corruption was found”, the president of the disciplinary court fired.

The decision of Ariel Penelbadly advised by Diego Abal from the LAUNCH, generated an explosion in the foundations of the football parent company. Cancel Felipe Sánchez’s goal for an offside corner it was not just an illegal expropriation; In addition, it exposed the weak level of the referee. And he again unmasked Beligoy, director of arbitration, who not only decided to suspend Penel and Abal; Also to Diego Carretero, which was in the VOR booth as an AVAR; TO Gabriel Favale, Quality manager; and to the participants ariel scime AND Diana Milone; and the fourth referee, Ramiro Lopez.

As far as he could find out clarionScime warned Penel and the referees who were following the action from the booth that there was no offside by Antonio Napolitano. “Here are eight cameras that indicate otherwise”, they replied to the lineman who was in the sector. And they closed the microphone, as indicated by the protocol, so that there is no interference in the communication between the main referee and Ezeiza.

When everyone entered the locker room and reviewed the play that had been sent to them via WhatsApp, they couldn’t believe what had happened. “They led us to do shit”, was heard within the four walls of the referees’ locker room at the Juan Carmelo Zerrillo stadium. Penel followed the instructions of the VAR because she was a play actual which deserved no review. There was a very heated discussion with Abal. Hence the offer of apologies to Sebastián Romero, gymnastics coach, who spoke at the press conference.

Why did they stop Scime, who warned them about the comedy? And why did Milone and López suffer the same fate? There is a lot of anger from those involved with Beligoy, who is also the union secretary of the Argentine Association of Referees. It is difficult for them to claim him because he performs the double function, he is part of the union and part of the employer.

All the protagonists of Offside sent Beligoy an email – at the request of the head of the refereeing office, Sergio García, at the request of Tapia- as leave. He only replied to Milone. Penel tried to contact him and got no response. For the judge born in Avellaneda it is inexplicable Who stopped him since there were two former international colleagues in the cabin like Abal and Favale, and that he respected the rules. Just today he came face to face with the Director of Arbitration.

Despite the fact that Beligoy said last year that Argentine arbitration “is at its finest,” what happens to date denies it. Claudio Tapia is focused on Sub 20 world, but Toviggino is waiting. And the director of arbitration is already beginning to be viewed with suspicion. with all the directors of the Fifa in Argentina, what happened in Gimnasia-Sarmiento it was a piece of paper. An embarrassment that coincided with the contested action of the referee Fernando Espinoza in the match between Colón and Central Córdoba, when he badly pushed a player from the Santiago team.

For Beligoy, not only was that not enough reason to stop him, but he tasked him with nothing less than officiating a match that will have a very high sensitivity, such as Ginnastica visiting Unión. Chiqui Tapia himself would have asked the former referee to eliminate Espinoza, and Facundo Tello will take his place. It was not easy to bend Beligoy’s will: proof of this was that while the League announced Espinoza, the AFA did the same with Tello. Espinoza, they say, is flying, and the consideration of him as a FIFA referee seems to be numbered.

Beligoy, meanwhile, convened the judges of First division and focused on the following topics: dealing with footballers, vocabulary so that sooner or later VAR audios can be known as happens in international matches and asked not to speak to journalists, even informally. Will you believe you can cover the sun with your hands?