In an interesting report published on its website, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) explains the story of three referees who combine their activity as match officials with their work in the world of healthcare. They are Iragartze Fernández, nurse, Elena Pelaéz, midwife, and Judit Romano, anesthesiologist. All three send a message of support to fight to end the coronavirus.
The RFEF website explains that Iragartze Fernández is a nurse at the Rekalde Health Center in Bilbao and an assistant referee in the First and Third Division. She explains that “we are working intensively and at many times under stress situations screening for possible cases of coronavirus. For the good of all, stay home and help us not to spread the disease any further”, she asks firmly.
Elena Peláez, meanwhile, is a midwife at the Río Carrión Hospital in Palencia and referee in the First Division. Elena says that “with everyone's effort and positive attitude we will overcome it.”
Lastly, Judit Romano is an anesthesiologist and resuscitator at the Central University Hospital of Asturias in Oviedo. She is also the only woman assistant referee in the Second Division, after the promotion of Guadalupe Porras to the First Division. Mother of two children, she overcame lymphoma when she was 14 years old. “We are a team and together we will win for sure”, she says.
Source: SportsFinding
