Video of the accident suffered by a line judge after hitting herself with a TV camera in Spain – – 2024-03-01 06:34:34

Real Betis achieved a convincing 3-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao at home but surprisingly the match took a backseat. At the moment that Ezequiel Ávila opened the scoring at the Benito Villamarín stadium, an unusual situation arose on one of the sides of the playing field: line judge Guadalupe Porras Ayuso hit her head against a transmission camera when she was running back to half of the field to validate the goal.

After several days of uncertainty to understand what had happened, a perspective finally appeared from the stands that clarifies the situation. The assistant reaches the baseline and, once the Argentine scores the goal, he begins at full speed towards the other side. What she never imagined was that the man carrying the camera was going to take a few steps forward and get in the way with the enormous contraption. The party authority fell to the ground immediately and even the pennant flew several meters.

In the minutes of the match, everything that happened on the playing field was detailed. “In the 13th minute, coinciding with the achievement of the first goal, a television camera was placed in the work area of ​​my assistant number 1, who in the exercise of his function was going to move towards the center of the field as indicated in the Rules of the game. As a consequence of this action on the part of the television cameraman, there was a violent blow to the head of my assistant with said camera, which caused him a large incised-blunt wound on his face and he also lost consciousness, leaving him dazed on the ground,” the writing began.

And he added regarding the assistance he received immediately: “When the medical services of Real Betis and Athletic Club quickly became aware of the situation, they went to the area where the cameraman hit my assistant, since He fell at the same moment bleeding profusely. “The assistant then had to be transferred by the stadium’s medical services by ambulance to a hospital.”

Guadalupe was discharged from the hospital in the city of Seville to which she was transferred and is now resting in the comfort of her home. In parallel, the Technical Committee of Referees demonstrated all its anger and indignation at the unfair blow suffered by the line judge since La Liga had been warned on several occasions of the danger that existed with the overreach of some cameramen who rushed to get involved. to the playing field and covered the route of the line to record the scenes more closely.

The media outlet Relevo added that the Mediapro worker, corresponding to the DAZN network broadcast, “is very affected by what happened” and that “he considers that it was an accident.” The portal tried to contact the company in charge to have more details about it but received a denial from those in charge. The camera system that the protagonist used is called steadycam and has the characteristic of having a metal arm that holds the device to its wearer.

Quickly, the local team published a message of encouragement for the referee on all their social networks. “From Real Betis we want to send our encouragement to the linesman Guadalupe Porras for the unfortunate accident that occurred today at the Benito Villamarín. A big hug from all of Beticismo,” wrote the club with the photo prior to the start of the match.