What we know about RFEF investigation into VAR audio leak: clubs ruled out | Relief
Monday afternoon journalist Gerard Romero It was possible to identify some VAR audio recordings that were not subject to the RFEF-LaLiga agreement and should not be made public. In fact, he claimed to have the images that accompanied these audio recordings, but to “avoid getting into even more trouble,”“, broadcast audio only through his Twitch channel. More precisely, a conversation between Hernandez Hernandez (VAR) and Hernandez Maeso (field referee) about the controversial game between Real Madrid and Almeria, which the referee did not have to consult on the monitor.
The Judges’ Technical Committee (CTA) agreed three days ago. publish only audio recordings of those that ended with the referee watching on the screen at the foot of the field. The rest should remain private. Hence the unprecedented leak of sound that was not part of this type of play. The CTA immediately launched an investigation to find out what happened.
In the midst of the initial confusion, one of the options that took shape was the option computer security failure CTA. He won’t be the first to suffer in the RFEF. This has already happened with an alleged pending invoice against Athletic that turned out to be an attempted fraud or alleged hacking of Rubiales’ phone to, in theory, steal company data. Super Bowl Files. They don’t have a particularly strict system in this regard.
VAR audio, in addition to the CTA, referees and Hawk-Eye, the VAR provider, is stored by a company that is responsible for storing it all. a kind of cloud for storing files, as reported by Isaac Futo in El Partidazo de Cope.. The journalist assured that there are several suspicions that he could be a former CTA employee who had access to this platform and accessed the entire clip with the entire VAR audio recording in order to give it to Gerard Romero.
They also didn’t rule out Possible human error when sending a selection of party conversations, including the action between Vinicius and Pozo when he should not have entered. This is where the first hours of initial confusion focused.
Discarded routes
Which completely excluded the responsibility of the clubs. The teams do not have access to these VAR recordings under any circumstances and only listen to those published on television, so they did not direct their attention to them. “Access to all audio recordings is very limited,” RFEF explained yesterday.
Another option is to think about who produces the images of the matches, Mediapro, which was also immediately discarded. Firstly because it is not currently a VAR service provider, and secondly because it is only responsible for televised matches and not video refereeing. That is, they get the same sound as on TV. Under no circumstances can they hear conversations between the VOR room and the stadiums.
So who has access to audio? Obviously, judges, responsible for using this tool and saving all the games on his system. Committee members can access them, but It doesn’t seem to make much sense for them to do this and tarnish their own image, although this is also being investigated.
On the other hand, the VAR provider Hawkeye, which they never had any problems with. The STA assures that The company has never had any problems in this regard.. From next year, after the last VAR competition, it will retain the semi-automatic offside position, but will lose video refereeing in favor of Mediapro.
The RFEF is trying to clarify the situation as soon as possible, which is the first time since the introduction of VAR in 2018-19. They were not used to this kind of leakage in the core, which used to be ironclad and impenetrable. However, in recent months, even CTA President Luis Medina Cantalejo himself has come to express his anger at the remaining judges. due to the ease with which some leaks occurred, such as the day when everyone met via video call to analyze some options in the Negreira case, and some journalists processed specific information from said meeting.
Anyway, there is no leak as alarming as this one. Currently, they are still trying to find the problem in order to eradicate it. definitely. The controversy also comes after one of the most controversial weekends of the season in terms of refereeing, following three VAR actions in Real Madrid’s favor against Almeria at the Santiago Bernabeu.
