In the middle of the stoppage of Chilean soccer referees -who ask for the departure of the team led by Javier Castrilli after the dismissal of more than ten judges-another flank opens in Quilín. Los Tenores de ADN revealed the audios in which Francisco Gilabert acknowledges pressure to collect the already famous penalty of the match between Huachipato and Copiapó for promotion.
In the 69th minute of that match, the referee sanctioned an infraction in the Diego García area against Walter Mazzanti. “I charged the penalty understanding that it might not be a penalty, because I played it and I saw from behind that I touched him on the ankle. Cache that the VAR was going to call me. Ready, the VAR calls me, I see that it is not a penalty, I am going to go out with a corner kick “bill.
“And they tell me ‘Francisco, wait a minute, analyze the shirt.’ I see a shirt pull but I said ‘it seems to me a game action, I go with a corner kick’. And they tell me ‘Francisco, please analyze the shirt’, and I say ‘what?’ And there I understood that there was something strange. And I left with that feeling of charging a weá that was not”Gilabert adds in the logs.
The 39-year-old judge says that after the meeting he had a dialogue with the cabin crew: “I finish the game and the VAR tells me ‘weon, luckily you charged the penalty, luckily you understood’. I say ‘yes, but what weá He passed'”. And he adds that they tell him: “They called from Santiago, that they had to charge a penalty.”
“The VAR violated all the protocols”Gilbert adds. “It was a very tricky dialogue. Surely they will release the audios, hopefully it will be seen because that feeling weá. Because at the beginning I had the corner kick ready, and they make me stop, ‘Francisco, see the shirt.’ And that’s where it all went.”
As Tribuna Andes advanced, the referee says that he felt bad after the match. “I feel like aweonao, as I was a clumsy. I could have done something different anyway. maybe he punished me, he even kicked me out [Castrilli]but did what I really believed. I do not know what chuchamaybe I wasn’t that connected to the game because I’ve said no to penalties many times. But this time it was a weá very rare, terrible cloudy”account in another audio.
Furthermore, it reveals that I have thought of so many weás, that they took me because I am the newest of the FIFA and they will believe that they chose me. Then I thought that the VAR guys knew what was going to happen and they had talked about it. I have also thought that [Osvaldo] Talamilla or Castrilli have a weá with the people of Huachipato, I think that’s the closest thing, and that game was special for them and they couldn’t lose. I have thought of so many weás. But Seeing myself involved in that shit was terrible, because I had no autonomy, I was forced to charge something and now look at the average shit.
He also says that after the game he had a conversation with the questioned head of the referees commission: “Castrilli called me and told me that I was a brave, courageous guy, who felt represented by me on the court. Blah, blah, blah, pure verse. I tell him ‘but I’m the one who pays here’, and he tells me ‘don’t worry Francisco, we’re going to bank you to death, this is what we need, people committed to the project’”.
and point to mario vargasthe quality manager (who is the only external person who has contact with the VAR referees) as the one who received the first pressure. “They call the QM, ‘that’s a penalty,’ and he went the other way. So there I put the puzzle together afterwards”Add.
This Tuesday, the referees’ union decided to go on indefinite strike in the framework of the massive dismissals carried out by Castrilli. It was by 102 votes in favor, 54 abstentions and zero against. Cindy Nahuelcoy, Felipe González and Cristian Droguett They will be in charge of leading the direct dialogues with the Chilean soccer authorities.
“This commission is immediately available to exercise the function of negotiating with the National Association of Professional Soccer in search of a solution,” reported the Referees Union.
In addition, they stressed that They request “the departure of the current Arbitration Commission and the reinstatement of the 14 arbitrators recently dismissed”. PPablo Milad, president of the ANFP, so far he has backed Castrilli in charge of national arbitration.
This Wednesday, the Union of Professional Soccer Players (Sifup) supported the position of the judges. “We adhere to the request made by the arbitrators, there is an anti-union practice that cannot occur in our country. In addition, we cannot level down, we cannot allow referees from below, amateur or league referees, to direct professional football. First, because they don’t have the skills,” said its president. Gamadiel Garcia.