MOSCOW, Aug 25, Pavel Levkovich.The head of the refereeing department of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Pavel Kamantsev, said that many Russian referees should overcome their closeness, they should become public. that public statements about the work of referees are unacceptable. «Let's start with the coaches, let them talk about the tactics and analysis of the opponent. And after the match they will tell what happened. We come to watch football not for the sake of the referees, and the referee often cannot explain our decision. Especially five minutes after the match. We had such an experience, we violated the regulation on the ESC and entered into communication at night. No one heard us. Immediately we received a complaint from Spartak, saying, why is the ESC member speaking so openly in the press. At the moment, let's proceed from the fact that we have a certain set of judges with certain professional and personal qualities,» Kamantsev emphasized. If all the judges were top, then we could expect columns from them, explanations of their decisions, and so on. We are now at the stage of preparing our reserve. And, honestly, plunging them into yet another stress is not entirely correct. We need to understand what we want to do. We do not create content. The main task is for the referee to make correct decisions. Openness does not harm some judges, but some need to overcome closeness. For many years the image of the judge was negative. They themselves do not really want to be public. This is also a process to be done. You can't tell them that tomorrow you go and give interviews. We discussed interviews with referees during the match, and they said that there were no questions, but we would go to flash interviews as players and coaches and say some general words. Karasev and Bezborodov? Yes, they are great, but you can’t introduce rules only for them,” he added. The head of the refereeing and inspection department also noted that the management is ready to take on all the negativity about the work of judges. ratings. I can't say it's top content. No such request exists. We are for a systematic approach, we do any tests at commercial tournaments. Where there is no heat, where there is fun and so on. You remember that we filmed from the VAR center, violated all IFAB laws. Conducting some tests in the RPL and getting a negative, heaping up mistakes is not entirely true. The question is not that we forbid everything to judges, sometimes we force them to speak and participate in media life. But to put it in a binding is not entirely correct. If a judge writes to me and says that he wants to justify himself, then I think that this is wrong. There is leadership that can speak. We must take on the negative. We go step by step and test various possibilities,» Kamantsev summed up.
