Luís Godinho regrets that referees are the “flag” of bad results International referee Luís Godinho lamented today that referees are often used as the “flag of poor performance by a football team” and recalled that errors are “normal in human beings”.nnLuís Godinho regrets that referees are the “flag” of bad results Do you think I like going to a cafe the next day and everyone talking about me? It affects me and, above all, it affects my family. We are part of football. We must be challenged and criticized when we make mistakes. We are the first to admit the error, but don’t make it a flag for the poor performance of a football team. We have to accept this”, said Luís Godinho.n
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nThe 37-year-old Alentejo native, first-class player since 2015 and international since 2017, was speaking to journalists at the end of a referee training camp for the new I Liga season, which took place over the last five days at Cidade do Futebol, in Oeiras.nn“Just as a striker can have a bad performance, so can the referee. We are human beings and issues of interpreting moves will never disappear from football. We want to ignore the game. My success is that no one talks about me continue with the game. Not for my hair, for my eyes, nothing. That’s my goal”, he stressed.nnBorba’s referee lamented the “wave of confusion and noise” that often arises within the sector, but was optimistic that this environment could be changed with the dissemination of communications between refereeing teams, one of the main novelties for the 2023/24 season.nn“The day after a game is never easy, especially when there are mistakes. Talking or trying to publicly explain the move or moves wouldn’t add much. With this measure, perhaps there will be more transparency and it will serve to clarify and reduce the noise” , he said.nnOther new measures for the season are zero tolerance for the behavior of members of the bench, something that Luís Godinho fully agrees with.nn“It’s a problem in Portuguese football and European football. There is more and more incorrect and abusive behavior on the benches and this takes the referee team’s focus away from the game itself. We have fought this and will continue to fight it, now in a more fierce way “, he stressed.n
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nLuís Godinho regrets that referees are the “flag” of bad results Luís Godinho was one of the 23 first-class referees who attended the Cidade do Futebol training camp, in which 40 assistants and 11 video referees (VAR) also participated.