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Libertad Digital has had exclusive access to the reports that the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), José María Enríquez Negreira, prepared for F.C. Barcelona. Negreira received a total of 7.3 million euros for alleged advice to Barça between 2001 and 2018. However, the Prosecutor's Office does not believe his version, considering that said reports are a farce and that his true objective was to carry out "actions tending to favor to the FCB in the decision-making of the referees".
The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona denounced Barça, Negreira himself, the former Blaugrana presidents Josep María Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, and the former directors Albert Soler and Óscar Grau for crimes of corruption in business, unfair administration and document falsification. Said complaint ended up in the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Barcelona in which the VAR referee, Xavier Estrada Fernández, presented his own complaint for this case. This Tuesday, the State Attorney General, Ávaro García Ortiz, has agreed that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office take the reins of the investigation.
The Negreira reports published by LD have an epigraph in the header where you can read "Confidential arbitration report". These documents with the F.C. Barcelona were seized during a house search of the former manager of the Blaugrana club, Josep Contreras, who died last December.
Contreras was part of the board of directors of the blaugrana entity in several presidential stages: Josep Lluís Núñez, Joan Gaspart and Josep María Bartomeu. In 2012 he was part of the management group of the Catalan Football Federation. According to the investigators, Contreras came to charge commissions of up to 50% of the amount paid by the Barça club for services to Dasnil, one of the companies managed by Negreira and investigated in this plot by the Barcelona Provincial Prosecutor's Office.
The length of Negreira's arbitration reports is barely 2 or 3 pages. These documents for which Negreira charged more than 430,000 euros per year on average are extremely simple or childish, unprofessional, with poor writing and are also full of misspellings.
One of the reports revealed by this newspaper has as its protagonist the referee Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva, current VAR referee, on the occasion of the match that F.C Barcelona was going to play against RCD Mallorca on November 11, 2012. The match held at the stadium de Son Moix (Mallorca) was won by Barça 4-2 with goals from Xavi, two goals from Messi and one from Cristian Tello. Therefore, this report was prepared during the Presidency of Sandro Rosell, who came to pay 2 million euros to Negreira only between January 2011 and January 2014, according to the Prosecutor's Office (666,000 euros per year on average in those 3 years). Negreira's son, Javier Enríquez, was not hired by Barça until 2016. Related Barcelona paid Negreira 7.3 million to favor the club "in arbitration decisions and in the results" The Prosecutor's Office denounces Barcelona, Bartomeu and Rosell for the Negreira case Did Barcelona have a 'Negreira' in UEFA? Among the misspellings that appear in the report, the following can be seen: areas without tilde ("areas"), itself without tilde ("itself"), phrases without a full stop, has changed without h ("to changed "), inconsistencies ("he usually makes decisions very convinced"), disagreements, lack of commas and misprints.
The report on Iglesias Villanueva The 2-page report reviews some professional data of Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva, his statistics in the matches refereed to F.C. Barcelona and Mallorca. Of the 3 games refereed for Barça, the 3 ended in victory: in the League Barcelona-Betis 4-2 (15-1-2012), Barcelona-Racing Santander 3-0 (22-1-2011), and in Copa del Rey Barcelona-Ceuta 5-1 (10-11-2010). Of the four matches refereed for Mallorca, one ended in victory, one in a draw and two in defeat.
Subsequently, the brief report focuses on the personal profile of Iglesias Villanueva:
Very well prepared physically, he follows the game very closely and arrives following the area plays with ease, which allows him to almost always hit fast plays. He has more doubts in actions for grabs in corners, as it happens to all ".
Nacho (Iglesias Villanueva) is a very technical and disciplined referee, which leads him to always admonish in regulatory cases (hands, elbows, tackles from behind, not allowing quick kicks, etc.)
He is one of the few referees that this season has changed a team throw-in, for doing it too early.
Due to his level of serenity and courage, he will reprimand or send off as many players as deserved.
He is brave and usually makes very convinced decisions, which is why he always admonishes fairly.
He does not have a great personality or charisma, but his confidence and his prudence lead him to 'remove' the games effectively.
He has a high level of self-confidence which is positive, but which in turn makes him not trust and does not defend the decisions of his assistants as if they were his own. He will listen to them in fouls, but less in yellow cards. The assistants, when they are rarely listened to, tend to restrict their contributions to the referee, so it is easy for them not to participate if they are not very convinced of their contribution. So far this season, in terms of Offsides, he is more successful at Assistant 2 than the one on the bench.
He will not hesitate to stop the game if a goalkeeper or a player in the zone that prevents an offside is injured.
He transmits tranquility but when he plays he knows when and how to attract attention, for this he knows how to show a strong character and a lot of forcefulness if he has to silence the players.
He doesn't like pretense, although he won't risk admonishing if he isn't quite convinced of the intent to deceive.
He is reasonable and you can talk to him in a polite way, he does not allow protests when they are unjustified or lacking in education (angry or with bad gestures).
He makes decisions with great confidence, with a high level of self-confidence.
It must be taken into account that next week the 1st and 2nd Division referees have a TECHNICAL DAY in Madrid and will analyze their performances, so they tend to be very strict with the Committee's demands for all purposes. In his case, as always, he will work to go unnoticed.