Tuesday 05 Aug/2025 – 12:20 p
The Colombian Oscar Ruiz, head of the Main Referees Committee of the Football Association, talked about many files related to the arbitration system.
Oscar Ruiz statements
In statements with the journalist Saif Zahir, Oscar said: My first desire is to rely on Egyptian rulers only and not to use foreign rulers, but we cannot prevent clubs from requesting foreign referees because the list gives them this right.
The Chairman of the Referees Committee added: I hope that the clubs will trust more in the Egyptian referees, and the Egyptian rulers are requested to manage matches abroad .. There are Egyptian referees who will appear well in the coming period, and the Egyptian rule as well as the foreigner is possible for each of them to make mistakes.
The Chairman of the Referees Committee continued: In every match, the task of desire is that the referee be international, but we can appoint a ruling that makes a good performance even if it is non -international. For example, Mustafa al -Shahdi was praised after performing in some matches last season, which is not an international referee.
On the VAR records, Oscar Ruiz said: We hear the referees ’records if necessary in some games .. We received requests from clubs to hear the fighter records, but we adhere to the Egyptian Federation’s regulations in this regard, and in general we do not have what we hide.
The Chairman of the Referees Committee concluded his remarks by saying: Any ruling that needs to be included in order to manage matches with large mass pressure.
