Swiss Manuel Navarro, head of the Saudi Football Association Referees Committee, said that it was normal for referees to laugh at Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo and that it was human nature to act spontaneously.

In an interview with “In the Goal”, the Swiss announced: “It is not right to change the power to appoint referees in the Saudi league, and we choose them based on performance, which is the most important criterion and physical fitness.” Their history and recent matches.

Navarro added: “We have an external agency that takes care of the referee from his arrival at the airport and throughout his stay in Saudi Arabia, and has nothing to do with football.” It is a travel agency that arranges travel, transport, transportation and hotel. Reservation of seats for foreign arbitrators.

Responding to the controversy of Mexican referee Cesar Ramos, Navarro said: “Through my international experience, some international referees are invited if they have friends, but they cannot sit with the club representatives who face them or interact with them, and his presence is casual in the dinner session before the Al-Hilal and Al-Nasr derby matches.” .

Navarro added: “Saudi refereeing is improving, we are improving it and there are difficulties in every match. Regarding the review of round shots, the referees welcome an explanation showing the most important shots of the round we are doing. Many rounds.

The president of the referees committee explained that the penalty applies to the wrongdoers: the referee will be punished when he makes a mistake, and we talk to him, and some of them include a continuous suspension of several matches, of course he will. If he is not an arbiter he will not get paid.

Navarro confirmed, “Al-Ittihad’s penalty kick in front of Al-Fateh is counted in some matches like Uruguay, but not in Saudi Arabia. This kind of contact was not miscalculated here, and it was an incorrect penalty kick. , and the shot penalty kick by Aba players in the Al-Nasr match. Unworthy.”

He said foreign referees’ mistakes “are dealt with in the Saudi league by communicating with the heads of sports federations when foreign referees make mistakes, but it is not up to us to stop them.”

Navarro concluded that it is normal for referees to show their feelings: Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo smiles at referees.

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