The VAR, again in the eye of the storm: ​​it promised a fairer football and does not stop firing controversy

Claudio Tapia’s phone caught fire on Sunday evening. The complaints of the top management of Argentinos Juniors and Racing were heard in WhatsApp messages. And the next day, the president of the AFA reached out Frederick Beligoy, director of referee training, to ask him about the most controversial plays of the weekend. It’s been a while before you either believe or fail a rude penalty not charged in favor of the Union against… Barracas Central, the team of chiki.

All these situations were the comments of the fans in the stands and on social networks. Even men in jackets and ties who usually make a donut in Viamonte. “VAR is disappointing. It is too expensive for us to be inefficient”She said clarion a ‘pope’ of the Executive Committee. The cost is $3,000 per game plus the expenses of the three referees. (VAR, AVAR and Quality manager) who work in the VOR booth.

That feeling, a mix of anger and disappointment, the majority of executives agree. But no one complains publicly. They don’t want the “return”. They leave this issue, therefore, left to the fury of fans and footballers and coaches. A recent case, Federico Lanzillota, Argentine goalkeeper. Two legitimate goals against River at the Monumental were disallowed on Sunday.

“The only thing I can say is that we feel outraged and feverish. It was clear what happened on the field. The truth is that we are hot. It’s not the first time this has happened to us. We have to keep fighting against whoever it is, sometimes things happen and today, due to things unrelated to football, we miss a great result on a difficult pitch.”hit number one.

The tracing of the lines through the Delta Cast, the Belgian system, is the stuff of controversy. “There is no precision because it is manual and there are no cameras from all angles,” slipped in an old referee who knows the halls of Ezeiza, where the base led by Beligoy is located.

How does the system work in the case of the advanced position? The show is reviewed and the video assistant (a television operator) runs the images for the booth judges to analyze. Far from the technology that exists in Europe, where the semi-automatic offside that debuted at the World Cup in Qatar already works, you need a good chassis. And it doesn’t always happen. Especially if the stadium is small or the match does not require a large view of the channels they broadcast.

In addition to disallowed goals a Gaston Verona AND Gabriel Avalosreferee Fernando Rapallini charged a Paraguayan penalty to Enzo Pérez in which no contact was noted.

There was another action that sparked discussion last Sunday. It was in Avellaneda, where Racing and Tigre drew 2: 2. In the 1: 1 goal, which was scored Brian Leizzait cannot be established that the ball crossed the entire line before Gabriel Arias’ spectacular slap. In none of the replicas is it observed. The blue line, however, was drawn behind the finish line. Andrés Merlos validated after five minutes of deliberation.

In a country devastated by the social and economic crisis, it seems difficult to claim the Hawk eye which in the Premier League had a cost of £161 million. Not to mention the watch that every referee has and warns him whether or not the ball has crossed the condemnation line, the value of which is dand 3,500 euros. Thinking about semi-automatic offside seems like a chimera. It would be necessary to embed a ball with a chip, which reports 29 player data at 50 times per second.

The goal they disallowed kylian mbappe in PSG-Bayern Monaco in the round of 16 of the Champions League is a clear testimony that the tool works. It must have been by a millimetre, but Nuno Mendes was offside when he carried out the pass which allowed him to face the back and enable his teammate, who defined one-on-one with Yann Sommer.

Do you dream of the automatic VAR that allows the referees to explain the decision made to the whole stadium? It started working in the Club World Cup which Real Madrid won at the weekend.

Barracas Central is always in the spotlight for its connection with Tapia. On Monday, Yael Falcon Perez did not collect a clean penalty from Francisco Alvarez on Oscar Piris. At the VAR I was Hector Paletta. The week before, in Junín, Pablo Dóvalo hadn’t picked up a scandalous hand, coincidentally from Alvarez himself, in the match against Sarmiento. The same Dóvalo who sent off Miguel Jacquet at Platense-Atlético Tucumán on Saturday for a foul on Cristian Menéndez. He considered cutting an OMG (Manifest Goal Occasion) but another squid player came in to close.

Dóvalo has made so much noise that Beligoy has nominated him in this 4th appointment for two matches of the VAR: this Friday he will be at the Gimnasia-Instituto and Saturday at Newell’s-Banfield. Falcón Pérez will also not be a field judge. On Saturday he will be in charge of monitoring Lanús-Rosario Central from Ezeiza.

rapallini, whose job is being questioned in River-Argentinos (with the close antecedent of the finals between Racing and Boca), will once again be the main referee, this time in Independiente-Defensa y Justicia, on Sunday in Avellaneda. Instead, Mauro Vigliano, who was assisting him from the VAR, was stopped.

Some former referees believe that VAR is handled in an extravagant way. “It cannot be that the VAR cameras are the same as the TV ones. The offside in Argentinos Juniors’ first goal didn’t show it like people, they drew lines to nullify it. I was a line in the Copa Libertadores and you realize they draw them the way they want, ”he shot Gabriel Brazenas. And he added: “When I was a referee they called us thieves and corrupt to make decisions by ourselves quickly, so now what happens in Argentine football?”

In previous dates there were also controversies. After all, it’s run by humans.. And it happens in the big leagues. In the Premier League, VAR judge John Brooks got the lines wrong and disallowed a Brighton goal against Crystal Palace. And it was frozen. The problem is that here the environment doubts the mistakes. Are too many.