CTA condemns threats to Munuera Montero after Bellingham red card row

The referees' collective has issued a statement through the RFEF website and has shown its “absolute repulsion” for the attacks and threats on social networks that Jose Luis Munuera Montero, referee of last Saturday's Osasuna-Real Madrid match in Pamplona, is receiving.

“The professional referees and referees wish to show our absolute repulsion to the attacks and threats that our colleague Jose Luis Munuera Montero is receiving through social networks and that affect him personally as well as his family environment,” says the CTA in the statement.

“Some attacks that add to the hatred and verbal violence with which every weekend we have to perform our professional work and that in the grassroots categories becomes, even more regrettably, physical violence in many more cases, “indicate the collegiate.

After last Saturday's match at El Sadar (1-1), Madrid complained after seeing that the VAR did not intervene in any of the actions in which they called for a penalty, along with the sending off of Jude Bellingham, two possible handballs, by Catena and Juan Cruz, and Vinicius being brought down.

In addition, the club described as a “residual action” the tackle by Camavinga that led to Osasuna's opener, understanding that the contact with Budimir occurred after the Croatian striker had finished the play with a shot wide.

 

February 17, 2025