Guatemalan arbitration goes through one of its eras of more and greater accusations, this following several controversies in a short period of time.
In the current Closing 2025 there has been almost a controversial decision by date and just 10 of 22 completed days.
This has caused the referees are in the mouth of both fans and the protagonists themselves within the playing land.
Even some coaches, such as Sebastián Bini and Ronald González, municipal technicians and communications, made their complaints public regarding the performance of the arbitration body in the National League matches.
“There are certain things that cannot happen. We play our work every day, the coaches, we lose three games, they throw us. And okay, players when everyone is wrong kills them. And of the referees? We can’t talk because now something will come out“The Red coach came to say after a match against former GFC.
The coach Albo on the other hand also talked about the referees, but His criticism focused more on the technological deficiencies in the National League.
5 of the controversies that have marked the Clausura 2025
With regard to some of these controversial plays, Free press He made a recapitulation of some of the most controversial decisions in the tournament.
One of those took place on the third day of the championship in the duel that faced Communications and former GFC at the Cementos Progreso stadium. The duel, in charge of referee Juan Morales, ended with a triumph of the colonials 2-3but the action that monopolized the attention was precisely that of the third antique goal.
José Rosales perforated Fredy Pérez’s network with a powerful auction but the shot was preceded by a lack of Oscar Castellanos on Erick González, so the goal should not have climbed the scoreboard.
In another duel in which he also appears old but against municipal, Kevin Cocoa was in charge of a match that was hot enough for the expulsions of Santiago Gómez and Rodrigo Saravia, but there was also a situation that Sebastián Bini later lamented and was that of the second colonial goal.
In the action of the goal, ancient executed a corner kick and Until the ball was already at stakewhich caused scarlet players to interpret that the game stopped, but it was not the case and José Ardón scored the goal of the victory.
Ancient VRs. Red 65 ‘❌ Flagrant Error Validate Second goal from Antigua, already executed (kicking) the corner kick the referee sounded his whistle, that is to say that he stopped the game for no reason. He had to resume with a ground ball before the arbitrator procedure error pic.twitter.com/J3ZGJSDB2R
– Var502 (@var502gt) January 30, 2025
On the same fourth day, in the duel between Communications and Marquense by Wildomar Ramírez, the referee left a hand in the Óscar Linton area that could be a penalty. On the end, Linton himself scored the goal of the draw for Marquense.
@Cremasoficial VRS. @Marquensecd 46 ‘❌ Error by leaving a hand of the visiting defender who deliberately had it in an unnatural position to the external to expand the volume of his body and occupy more space. It was criminal in favor of creams.
🎥 Albavision pic.twitter.com/m4jheubkdu– Var502 (@var502gt) January 30, 2025
Another of the most commented actions came in the duel between Municipal and Mixco that was played at the Manuel Felipe Carrera stadium.
There Mixco was signing what was his first triumph in the championship, but Julio Luna sanctioned an alleged hand in the unnatural position of Jeshua Urizar that ended in the draw on the scoreboard. Then Sebastian Bini came to declare that in his opinion it was not a penalty.
@Rojos_municipal VRS. @Deportivo_Mixco 83 ‘❌ Crassus error in penalty penalty in favor of the reds. The ball went to impact the arm in the natural position of protection of the defender. It was a non -sanctionable hand.
🎥 Albavision pic.twitter.com/z9pxydp3yo– Var502 (@var502gt) February 8, 2025
Finally, the red painting also appears in another of the most controversial plays in the championship.
In the duel corresponding to the tenth date of the tournament between Marquense and Municipal, under the arbitration of Diego Ojer, they gave themselves Two commented occasions, one for each team.
In the first, the assistant indicated out of place in a legitimate goal of Marquense, while the playing was enabled at the time of the auction.
And then, César Archila crashed a ball in the crossbar that bounced after the goal line, being a goal, but the speed of the play was superior to the reaction of the referees who did not validate the target.