'We must protect them' - Flick calls for better treatment of officials - video Dailymotion

Barcelona boss Hansi Flick admits that he's upset by the way referees in Spanish football are being treated.

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00:00And what I said want to say okay and for to know to to measure on this

00:06competition it's also very important to have the referees and what I want to say

00:11is now the referees at the moment you know what they are doing here in Spain

00:15with them it's unbelievable you have to think about the families also from the

00:20referees you know every one of us they are making mistakes everyone okay and if

00:25it's happened in the match I think the responsibility of the coaches and also

00:30of the players are to protect them okay it's it's I don't don't like that and

00:35and they're always the referee you know we we are use our energy to discuss with

00:43him know that the referee make his decision and know in the past we had

00:49know the bar but now we have the bar and we have to we have to yeah trust in them

00:54okay they have to trust in them and I think the Federation has to show his how

01:00strong he is the yeah this is for me very important you know we have very

01:05important because we have to take care about it and and we have to change a

01:09little bit these things about them because they are human and this is

01:14normal that you make some mistake also every player every coach every every of

01:18us are doing these mistakes okay and take care about them we have to protect