> “Throughout history, the team that has benefited the most, not only in Spain but in Europe, has been Real Madrid. In my time playing, we always came away with our losses,” he told 2Cat program ‘El cafè d’idees’
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> “I thought that with the VAR system, which I was initially very much in favor of—because you can’t have a goal awarded when the ball hasn’t crossed the line, and before they couldn’t disallow it—I thought this advantage of VAR would be more effective.
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> “But if before there was a problem with the referee and the linesmen, now there are the same ones plus the VAR officials, and we haven’t made much progress; we’re in the same situation as before.”