The VAR promotes the change requested by the fans: the referees must explain their decisions live

Through their microphone, the referees, forward Club World Cup to be held at Moroccothey will explain to the audience in the stadium and on television all the decisions made by the LAUNCHas announced in a press release on ‘Council of the International Football Federation‘ (IFAB).

At their annual meeting, held at the stadium of WembleyIFAB agreed to referees’ “live reporting” of VAR-related decisions both in the stadium and via broadcasters and announced the provision would be tested during twelve months in international competitions.

The first, he announced, will be the Club World Cup to be held from 1 to 11 February and in which the Real Madrid, Flamengo, Seattle Sounders, Wyad Casablanca, Al-Ahly, Al-Hilal and Auckland City. Later, it could be implemented in competitions such as the Women’s Soccer World Cup in New Zealand and Australia (July 20-August 20).

FIFA also provided updates on the latest developments in VAR technology, calling the game’s incorporation of semi-automatic offside “successful”. Qatar World Cup.

The call “SAOT“, a tool that began to be implemented in August, was what deprived Argentina (and more precisely Lautaro Martinez) to score at least one goal on his debut for the national team, against Saudi Arabia. In that unexpected defeat against the Asians, the Inter striker couldn’t celebrate because the replay showed that he had his shoulder forward.

In the final, first Francethe story was different: the semi-automatic offside validated the team’s 3-2 run from staircasesin those frantic extra minutes in which Lautaro appeared empowered and finished ahead of Lloris, so much so that Messi marked on the rebate.

On the other hand, also speaking of the World Cup in Qatar, the IFAB Board declared itself very satisfied with the initiative of “asking for justice” when adding more minutes, with stricter and more precise calculations. The performance was one of the ‘surprises’ at the start of the tournament, with matches lasting over 100 minutes, such as England v Iran which lasted 117 minutes.

“We want to avoid matches with only 42/43 effective minutes of play. So we’ll have to make up the time for substitutions, penalties, celebrations, medical or VAR,” the Italian said at the time. Pierluigi CollinaFIFA Chief Referees.

Referees seem increasingly adapted to technology and willing to exploit its advantages to improve game action. It now remains to know when the new changes will be implemented in the national championships and, more precisely, when they will arrive in Argentina, where, for example, the VAR took four years before its arrival, in March 2022.

With the information of the Agencies