The head of the Spanish Resignation Committee stepped down, and the major reform of La Liga referees kicked off

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Li Jingyi

The Spanish Football Association issued an official announcement that a personnel earthquake occurred in the Spanish Referee Technical Committee (CTA), from the head of the Adjudication Committee Cantalejo (pictured below) to the VAR head, all of which ended. The structural reform of the referee system that La Liga teams are calling for is kicking off after a season full of controversial penalty. The issue of La Liga penalty is becoming increasingly serious, and it has become common for each team to complain about referees. The protagonist of the detonation event is Real Madrid, which is the most like the football Mecca on this planet. In the 22nd round of La Liga in 2024-25, Real Madrid lost to Espanyol 0-1 away. Spanish left-back Carlos Romero carried out a bad violation of Mbappe's studs, but only received a yellow card warning. Real Madrid was dissatisfied and launched public opinion siege and submitted an appeal letter to the Western Football Association. Later, the La Liga convened a meeting of 42 teams under its jurisdiction, and all parties reached a consensus to impose disciplinary punishment on Real Madrid, the only absent from the meeting.

And the referees won widespread sympathy for public opinion, La Liga once launched a campaign to support the referees. But the incident did not subside, but instead headed towards an even more ugly outbreak. The teams that oppose Real Madrid's attack on the referees can't bear the substantial damage to their performance by enforcing the double standard. However, the latter's reaction method is more moderate than Real Madrid's requirement to "directly fire relevant referees". The rest of the country called on the Spanish referee community to implement reforms as soon as possible, so that the law enforcement system can move towards openness and transparency.

On Thursday, the four-year rule of the chairman of the Commission, Medina Cantalejo, came to an end, with his staff resigning at the same time, including VAR department head Clos Gomez, referee Antonio Ruvinos and three vice-chairmen, Bicento Lissondo, Bernardino Gonzalez and José Luis Lesma. "As" newspaper revealed that the chairman of the Spanish Football Association, Lausanne, once tried to speak with Real Madrid and the Imperial Committee, but the two sides had deep grievances and huge differences, making it difficult to mediate. Ultimately, Lausanne chose to implement the reform.

The Spanish Football Association plans to announce the new leadership team of the Adjudication Committee on July 2, and the Spanish media has not yet obtained the names of potential candidates. This huge personnel change marks a major change in the Spanish referee system. The Spanish Football Association plans to learn from the advanced management models of the Premier League and the Bundesliga in order to achieve modernization and transparency in the Spanish referee system.