Luis Muentespresident of the Association of Football Referees of Ecuador, asks for “understanding” in the situation of the national judgewhich raises a suspension of their activities due to maintenance of debts by the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) since 2018.

In a letter sent by the union to the FEF on Monday, seeks “finding solutions to multiple inconveniences” which affect national arbitration, with debt maintained since 2018 as a senior bondand for which they claim that fertilizers greater than 10% have been collected by Ecuafútbol.

“We will not deal with strikers,” replies Miguel Ángel Loor before another attempt to paralyze the arbitration union

“The alliance has pending payments since 2018. By 2020 they owed us $600,000 and a payment plan was made, but with the (COVID-19) pandemic, the debt has risen sharply“, said Muentes, for an amount that would amount to 1,800,000 dollars.

In his presentation, the head of the arbitration union asks that they put themselves in the shoes of the judges, and not just demand. “They want to impose on us that I pay you when I have money,” Muentes said this Tuesday in a conversation with machsports.

Union manager refused to be labeled as strikers, as defined by Miguel Ángel Loor, President of the Pro League. It’s not the referees who paralyze the Serie A tournament, “We’re not stopping the tournament, it’s already stopped,” Muentes saidbefore the paralysis in which the tournament passed last Friday, in search of a solution to manage the television rights of the national championships.

Muentes announced it the union has a meeting with Ecuafútbol. “We ask for your understanding of the situation in which our judges find themselves, we are not asking that they pay us everything, what we want is a solution for them to pay us,” he said. (D)