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Mario Rios
Figueroa Vazquez (Andalusian Committee), was close to conditioning Sánchez Martínez in San Mamés. In the first part of the match and with the score 0-0, the VAR referee urged the principal to review a play by Gorosabel about Rodrygo. In the action, the Basque full-back deflects the ball slightly and it is the Brazilian footballer who hits the defender’s ankle. A play that seems to have created doubts for Figueroa Vázquez, since not only did he not call the main referee but he tried to influence the Murcian with a “never touches the ball”when in reality Gorosabel did deflect the ball.
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Martinez He decided to ‘contradict’ what was said from the video arbitration room and did not signal a penalty, a somewhat anomalous situation, since it is rarely seen that a main referee contradicts what he is taught from the VAR. Former referees like Iturralde González They pointed out this attitude of the Andalusian referee who was in the VAR: “The VAR referee does not have to speak. For me that is the problem”.
Himself Figueroa Vazquez He was also in the Vallecas VAR room, in the Ray – Barça of Matchday 3 of LaLiga, on August 27. In that match the referee was a secondary protagonist of the clash for two actions against Barça. We talk about the trampling of Jules Koundé about Pep Chavarria that the referee César Soto Grado sanctioned at the request of the VAR and ended up causing the annulment of the goal of Lewandowski. It did not stop there, since if he did not appreciate that Gorosabel touched the ball last Wednesday, he did not see the trip of Lejeune about Dani Olmo despite the clear contact within the area.
