Dressed for the street, without the official attire of the Referees Technical Committee, and in front of an auditorium with LaLiga referees and the RFEF Technical Referee Committee (CTA) chair, the Women’s Football League members were reconfirmed. the decision not to whistle any game until an agreement is reached that guarantees a professional contract.

“How valuable is the reputation of a sportswoman?”Asked Guadalupe Porras, spokesperson for colleagues CTA head of women’s football, Yolanda Parga, accompanied at Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas, and university students Marta Huerta and Marta Frías. A group that has “unanimously decided” not to go to any F League ground until an agreement is reached.

Its decision, which was adopted as final on Friday, Mandatory suspension of eight matches of the first day of the first professional women’s football league in Spain. We did not quit football, we want to be the first referee, but it is not possible for us to be the only non-professional organization in the professional league.

Referees blamed the F League, especially its president, Beatriz Álvarez Mesa. Meanwhile, as Parga explained in her speech, it’s an F League this morning in which members denounced themselves to the RFEF via email.

months of conflict

Bunny stood up just ten days ago when the CTA held a press conference about the start of the women’s competition. In this act, Guadalupe Porras issued a warning to which no one paid much attention at the time: “If we want a professional league, it is important that the referees have contracts.. “It’s very important that the referees have this contract if we want to continue to improve,” he said.

Until then, several meetings had taken place without any agreement, according to the account released this Monday. The first will take place on June 27 and in Liga F is offering to keep its 3300 euros per game fee from last season, when the league was not yet professional.. This amount includes the wages of the arbitrator, assistants, fourth arbitrator and informant, as well as expenses arising from travel, overnight or subsistence, and the structural costs of the group (education, clothing, other non-arbitrator employees).

The referees, represented by the RFEF in the negotiations, reject the proposal, which the F League repeated three weeks later on July 15 under the same conditions. The federative proposal, whose details have not been disclosed much, is as follows: to gradually reach 21,000 euros per game (approximately five million in total) over a five-season horizon.

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The next episode came last Thursday when the CTA announced its “unanimous decision not to officiate any game of the First Division National Championship” by issuing a statement from F League referees and assistants. the current conditions of our labor and economic situation not being defined“.

In the same statement, the members stressed that “professional competition between men should have minimum working conditions similar to those of the arbitration body”; professional competition.

Hours later, the Government announced that José Manuel Franco’s “arbitrator group, clearly, All the support of CSD to improve their current conditions, increase their salary and get professional recognitionA useless ceasefire call.

The F League’s bid remains at 3,300 euros per game, suggesting that the full amount goes to the referees and is negotiated with the RFEF, except for the payment of the remaining costs. This formula does not convince either the RFEF or the affected parties. Hours before the start of the F League, the referees replied, “They won’t blow the whistle until the deal,” and they actually kept órdago.

The role of CDS

On the same Friday, contacts were held to resolve the situation, sponsored by the CSD, during which the RFEF also made a non-exhaustive “minimum proposal”. The most specific reference is given by Porras when he encoded his claims as an annual salary. “Part six from the first and part three from the second”. That is, about 50,000 euros gross per year.

“We are here to claim our rights. At the moment, if I am injured or sick, I cannot get paid because I have no contract,” the referees argued. They say they have the support of players, clubs and referees from Pierluigi Collina, a member of LaLiga, UEFA, FIFA and UEFA Referee Committee..

The colleges also rejected the proposal to negotiate directly with the F League as it would be “illegal” and could be “disqualified” for being affiliated with the CTA. In any case, they wondered: “How are we going to sit down and negotiate with someone who accuses us and threatens us all week, even if it’s not illegal?”.

All these disagreements led to a depressing picture of the competition, which began with clubs taking part in matches and having to go home without playing in the absence of the referees to officiate the match. Affected college members will not be refereeing a conflict that doesn’t seem like an easy or immediate solution at this week’s Copa de la Reina.