The VAR? “Do not understand why stand for 8 minutes in front of the screen”

The incident was so serious that the professional committee of the referees’ association hurried to send its conclusions from the analysis of the case on Saturday night and an unequivocal ruling: Screen referee Daniel Bar-Natan should have refrained from recommending referee Snir Levy to examine Pendel in favor of Maccabi, and there was no Need for the intervention of the VAR team since no offense was committed at all. As far as the judges’ union is concerned, this is one of the most embarrassing events of the season, which comes at a bad time, which caused chairman Ronit Tirosh to lose patience.

“The recent Bloomfield incident is doing me a disservice,” Tirosh begins. “We are talking about good people, intelligent, professionals, who invest and never stop learning, including simulations of how to deal with stressful situations. Then comes a game like last Thursday of Maccabi Tel Aviv against Kiryat Shmona, and how is it defined in the language of the referees’ union? Terrorism, to differentiate a thousand thousand differences of course. It stains the entire union on its judges, its people and its staffs.

“I’m trying to figure out how it’s going. I said to myself ‘Walla, where’s the penalty?’ Has the fact that a gate was previously disqualified justifiably affected? It is clear to me that all this professionalism has psychological aspects, and I have already turned to our psychologist, Dr. Roy Samuel, who will hold a conference on the subject. I want to hope and believe that judges come from the cleanest place and want to come out with the highest score. I personally believe in them. ”

Tiroche is a strange chicken in the union. From the moment she took the job she tried to fight the management culture that characterized him before she arrived, and today she admits: “I enjoy it less today, because I feel like a bone in their throat. I am the one who puts the look in front of their face every time again. More transparent.They came from a state of fixation, and I demanded in each cycle to come out with explanations even when unpleasant, even when we sinned and committed crime.This transparency was not and I register it to my credit.I also nurture judges, young staff from whom we can sort, because today “It’s a very forced profession. Judges send me the threats they get on their cell phones, so I asked for increased enforcement, fines and expulsions against officials who would not speak well of the judges.”

Do you feel that you can bring about the change you have set for yourself?
“I came with an educational background, so here too I will educate the people, including on the subject of leaks. There is one thing that prevents me from sending judges to the polygraph regarding leaks, and that is that I am the chairman and then supposedly question their credibility. Otherwise everyone would have gotten there already and I would have known who the leaks were. The truth, even without a truth machine I know how to mark people who are talking, and I ask the squares not to stroke them. Not everyone who is not embedded is just because of leaks, there are of course professional matters, but that too. “

The union has the image of a snake lair where judges are looking for how to trip each other.
“They are not a snake den at all. When you compete with someone, then even when you get dirty or gossip you no longer feel or understand that you are doing it. They will say they tried to just explain what exactly happened from their point of view, they do not see it as dirt. “An attempt to fail between referees or between referees and those on the grass. After all, a referee snatches a low score that leads to suspension from games and image damage if he made a wrong decision or intention.”

A recurring problem is the long deliberation in front of the screen.
“I do not understand why you stand for eight minutes in front of the screen and consider what to decide. I do not believe in sitting for four hours, but already in the first minute you know what you need and therefore a decision must be made for good or not bad at the immediate level. VAR and for three minutes consider what to say to the referee. If you are delayed, a sign that you called the referee to come to the screen and you have not yet made a decision and it is not true. I am very careful not to intervene professionally, but the truth – broken for me. “From day one, my vision was to increase the net playing time, so that from now on, every referee will pay for a delay, a drop in scores or a suspension.”

Promising to form a team of screen judges.
“I’ve been asking for this for a year, but it’s been argued that it’s something unstable in the scores and it’s hard, but I’m looking for a trend that will determine the team. From now on I will not approve someone for screen judging if I do not think he is good. This is not a junta, there will be changes. “

How many judges want to be in screen judging, and how many prefer the grass?
“Who asks them? I want good performance for the union and its benefit. I do not want frustrated husbands or coaches, and some of them have a good reason.”

Are you under pressure from the owner?
“Owners do not turn to me, neither Shahar nor Barkat. Coaches or CEOs turn, and they too are very careful about their requests for placement because then my door is locked, no one will dictate to us who to place. Kiryat Shmona approached us with a complaint a few days ago, we had not yet had time to answer them and the latest incident in Bloomfield had arrived. Now all eyes will be on the games of Kiryat Shmona. I will aggravate sanctions against referees’ mistakes, such as suspension from games, which hurts their pockets and morale. “

What do you think is a judge’s public image?
“It depends on what week it is. When it is quiet then everyone says the judges do a good job and how intelligent they are. When there is a failed event it stains us all for some two weeks. Despite the criticism, I must testify that these are serious people, investing endlessly in fitness training, conferences, music videos Events. It is a great pleasure and pride to run such an association. ”

What would you most like to change in the organizational culture of the union?
“Let judges maintain their own image, stop leaking, gossiping, gossiping and slandering each other. This conduct stems from the fact that it is a competitive organization, one that if I spoil each other I will come out as better, that if I hug a journalist it will help me. “In politics, just do not be transparent to me. When I see a headline or a picture, I do not understand who is leaking? I am one who likes challenges, I have no problem crossing the wall if necessary.”