“With me you would have done better,” Negreira told Barça in 2020 after the competition won by Real Madrid
Jose Maria Enriquez Negreiraformer referee and former vice-chairman of the Technical Commission of Referees, offered to Fútbol Club Barcelona to help them with the VAR in 2020, two years after his dismissal by Josep María Bartomeu, according to ‘El Mundo’.
The runner-up referee between 2016 and 2018, who had been in a relationship with the Barcelona Football Club for 17 years, contacted the Barça team and suggested he could help them with video refereeing. “If interested, get in touch”, he came to tell, according to ‘El Mundo’. Moreover, according to the same newspaper, after Barça’s refusal to re-hire him and after Real Madrid won the League, he told them the following: “With me you would have done better.”
The approaches were short and received no response., because both Bartomeu and the club management had decided in 2018 to nip the relationship in the bud. As the former referee approached again, the pandemic was at its peak, a fact that interrupted the League, which lasted until July after resumption. The title was won by Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid, in a season where Barcelona felt it had been damaged several times by VAR, making its debut in the competition in the 2018-19 season just as Negreira retired from playing. provide their services to the azulgrana entity.
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