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Interviewer: What was the most exciting game you refereed?
Juan Antonio: It’s difficult to choose one game as the most exciting. I remember some of the real Madrid－Barcelona games, for example, the first one I ever refereed. The atmosphere in the stadium was great. But really it’s impossible to pick just one－there have been so many.
Interviewer: Who was the best player you ever saw?
Juan Antonio: During my career, I’ve met many great player. It’s very difficult to say who was the best, but there’s one player who stands out for me, not just for being a great soccer player but also for being a great human being, and that was the Brazilian international player Mauro Sliva, who used to play here in Spain. Interviewer: What was the worst experience you ever had as a referee?
Juan Antonio: The worst? Well, that was something that happened very early in my career. I was only 16 and I was refereeing a game, I was attacked and injured by the players of the home team lost. After the game, I was attacked and injured by the players of the home team and by the spectators. After all these years I can still remember a mother who had a little baby in her arms and was trying to hit me. She was so angry with me that she nearly dropped her baby. That was my worst moment, and it nearly made me stop being a referee.
Interviewer: Do you think that there’s more cheating in soccer than in the past?
Juan Antonio: Yes, I think so.
Interviewer: Why?
Juan Antonio: I think it’s because there’s so much money in soccer today that it has become much more important to win. Also, the game is much faster than it used to be so it’s more difficult for referees to detect cheating. Interviewer: How do soccer players cheat? Juan Antonio: Oh, there are many ways, but for me the worst is what we call “simulation.” Players pretend there has been a foul when there has been no foul at all! For example, sometimes a player falls down and says someone pushed him or hit him when, in fact, nobody has touched him. In my opinion, when a player does this, he’s cheating not only the referee and the players of the other team, but also the spectators. The spectators pay money to see a fair contest, not to watch people cheat! Interviewer: What’s the most difficult thing about being a referee?
Juan Antonio: ah, the most difficult thing is to make the right decisions during a game. It’s difficult because you have to make decisions when everything’s happening so quickly－soccer today is very fast. Also, important decisions often depend on the referee’s interpretation of the rules. Things aren’t black and white. And of course making decisions would be much easier if players didn’t cheat. Interviewer: So, in your opinion fair play doesn’t exist any more.
Juan Antonio: No, I didn’t mean that. I think fair play does exist－the players who cheat are till the exceptions.
Interviewer: What was the most exciting game you refereed?
Juan Antonio: It’s difficult to choose one game as the most exciting. I remember some of the real Madrid－Barcelona games, for example, the first one I ever refereed. The atmosphere in the stadium was great. But really it’s impossible to pick just one－there have been so many.
Interviewer: Who was the best player you ever saw?
Juan Antonio: During my career, I’ve met many great player. It’s very difficult to say who was the best, but there’s one player who stands out for me, not just for being a great soccer player but also for being a great human being, and that was the Brazilian international player Mauro Sliva, who used to play here in Spain. Interviewer: What was the worst experience you ever had as a referee?
Juan Antonio: The worst? Well, that was something that happened very early in my career. I was only 16 and I was refereeing a game, I was attacked and injured by the players of the home team lost. After the game, I was attacked and injured by the players of the home team and by the spectators. After all these years I can still remember a mother who had a little baby in her arms and was trying to hit me. She was so angry with me that she nearly dropped her baby. That was my worst moment, and it nearly made me stop being a referee.
Interviewer: Do you think that there’s more cheating in soccer than in the past?
Juan Antonio: Yes, I think so.
Interviewer: Why?
Juan Antonio: I think it’s because there’s so much money in soccer today that it has become much more important to win. Also, the game is much faster than it used to be so it’s more difficult for referees to detect cheating. Interviewer: How do soccer players cheat? Juan Antonio: Oh, there are many ways, but for me the worst is what we call “simulation.” Players pretend there has been a foul when there has been no foul at all! For example, sometimes a player falls down and says someone pushed him or hit him when, in fact, nobody has touched him. In my opinion, when a player does this, he’s cheating not only the referee and the players of the other team, but also the spectators. The spectators pay money to see a fair contest, not to watch people cheat! Interviewer: What’s the most difficult thing about being a referee?
Juan Antonio: ah, the most difficult thing is to make the right decisions during a game. It’s difficult because you have to make decisions when everything’s happening so quickly－soccer today is very fast. Also, important decisions often depend on the referee’s interpretation of the rules. Things aren’t black and white. And of course making decisions would be much easier if players didn’t cheat. Interviewer: So, in your opinion fair play doesn’t exist any more.
Juan Antonio: No, I didn’t mean that. I think fair play does exist－the players who cheat are till the exceptions.
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