frustrated and angered by the refereeing<\/a> on the night. And they have now followed through on their concerns by sending a letter of complaint to RFEF.<\/p>\n\u201cFC Barcelona reports that it sent a\u00a0formal letter this Saturday, February 14th, to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), addressed to its President, the President of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), the head of VAR and the Director of Legal Advice, in which the Club expresses its\u00a0deep concern about the repeated homogeneous criteria,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
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In the statement, Barcelona highlighted their concerns about refereeing spread across five criteria:<\/p>\n
Lack of consistency in disciplinary criteria<\/p>\n
Contradictory criteria in hand actions<\/p>\n
Accumulation of relevant errors<\/p>\n
Application and transparency of VAR<\/p>\n
Criteria in the reviews on the monitor<\/p>\n
The statement further read: \u201cThe Club wishes to make it clear that this initiative does not intend to question the professionalism of the refereeing body, but rather to demand an urgent review of the criteria applied in order to guarantee:<\/p>\n
The credibility and prestige of competitions<\/p>\n
Uniformity in arbitration decisions<\/p>\n
Equal treatment between clubs.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, Barcelona also requested the full publication of all VAR audio recordings, regardless of whether there is a review on the field, as an essential measure of transparency.<\/p>\n
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Concluding, Barcelona proposed the creation of a specific disciplinary code or regulations for referees that establishes public and transparent consequences in cases of serious errors or negligence, with the aim of strengthening confidence in the system.<\/p>\n
\u201cFC Barcelona demands that its requests be analysed with the utmost seriousness and that concrete measures be taken to prevent similar situations from recurring in the future,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an official statement, FC Barcelona have announced that they have filed a formal letter of complaint over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[16924,1205,49,48,151661,12546,187190,192903,192905,192902,105016,192901,192904,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-475000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-copa-del-rey","13":"tag-fc-barcelona","14":"tag-formal-complaint","15":"tag-formal-letter","16":"tag-giuliano-simeone","17":"tag-letter-of-complaint","18":"tag-refereeing","19":"tag-rfef","20":"tag-royal-spanish-football-federation","21":"tag-soccer","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}