Former whistler Felipe Ramos Rizo, a World Cup winner in South Korea and Japan in 2002 and current analyst for the ESPN network, denounced in a conversation with The Opinion, that on the subject of stripping referee Fernando Guerrero of his FIFA badge It is not due to lack of capacity, but rather because of a personal revenge of the Chilean referee instructor Enrique Osses.
“Due to personal problems yesYo It would be an injustice if they took away Fernando Guerrero’s FIFA badge. Yes, because if you don’t agree with what he is saying in a talk by the Referees Commission, because it was in a talk where he said he didn’t agree and from there they caught him and he was threatened.”
“I know that he was threatened by Osses (Enrique), who told him that he had four years left and that as long as he was there he would never referee a final again or go to a World Cup. That was the threat, so how do they want a referee to give results, if they are threatening him beforehand.
Ramos Rizo was consulted on this same topic because the president of the Referees Commission, Armando Archundia did not defend the whistler Fernando Guerrero on this topic and in this regard he said that: “The truth is that I came to the conclusion that they are both job-keepers.”
“They only come for their money, nothing more and everyone looks after their group, it is not possible that Armando Archundia’s godson, being a rookie, has many more games than several international referees. “That’s disrespectful.”
In the same vein, he was also asked for his opinion regarding the versions that claim that personal favors who has made another FIFA badge like Luis Enrique Santanderare the vehicle to continue as an international whistler and be scheduled in Liga MX matches.
“The Santander thing is something else, They are personal favors and what Osses has to do is pay him with games and argue that poor boy, we are going to continue giving him the FIFA badge twice by failing the tests. That is a lack of respect for all referees. There is total disagreement among the referees about what they are doing with Santander and Guerrero.”
The Chilean Enrique Osses is not necessary in the arbitration of Mexico
Regarding the presence of the Chilean Enrique Osses as instructor For four years on the Referees Commission of the Mexican Football Federation, Felipe Ramos Rizo stated that: “It is not necessary here. “It’s four years old and this man has sunk refereeing, he has taken away the style of Mexican refereeing, when before they had a style, they had hierarchy, but today they no longer have respect, they no longer have hierarchy, they have no personality.”
He also added that: “That man has created that, the truth is that it is not needed at all. Today he is fighting with Archundia, imagine, fighting with the president of the Referees Commission, throwing him from behind, throwing stabs at him. “That’s not a good advisor.”
Ramos Rizo also ruled that: “But don’t think it came for good.No, he arrived in a package and they forced him into the refereeing, so there’s the guy.”
Finally, he urged that measures be taken to rescue Mexico’s arbitration: “It is urgent to rescue arbitration, “You already saw that the administrative part had to change, now go for the most important thing, instruction and training.”
“It is necessary to do a clean or a solid project, well structured, with capable people, with people of hierarchy who impose on the other referees, that when a former referee of hierarchy arrives to give a talk, it really has an impact, but please Rojitas goes to give a training talk. Well no,” he concluded.
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