By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London
October 12 – The head of FIFA’s Referees Committee says he is completely against goal-line technology – in direct opposition to FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s stance.
Ángel María Villar Llona, the President of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and a vice-president of both FIFA and UEFA, shook his head repeatedly when asked here what he thought about scientific aids for referees.
“No, no, no,” he told delegates without explaining why he took such a contrasting view to that of Blatter and of the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the game’s lawmakers, who have given the go-ahead to goal-line technology.
“I’m very respectful of the IFAB,” he said.
“If Spanish football is obliged to implement goal-line technology, we will but I’m not in favour.”
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