Carioca broadcaster decides to end Central do Apito after 34 years with referees in broadcasts
This Monday, the 21st, the Rio de Janeiro television station Rede Globo announced the dismissal of the former referees. Sandro Meira Ricci (48) and Fernanda Colombo(31). The decision accompanied the end of the famous Whistle Centerwhere retired football referees participated in broadcasts of football games to give a more technical view of the rules of the sport.
The decision to end the participation of referees due to the success of VAR during games, which began to provide answers during games, invalidating the need for a specific person to do so.
As a good part of the public rejected the Central do Apito, it also helped to define the end of the former referees in the matches. When analyzes are necessary, then, they will now be done during Globo’s own programs by the also former judge Paulo Cesar De Oliveirabut only during the pictures about soccer, not in the matches anymore.
⚠️ Globo fires Sandro Meira Ricci and Fernanda Colombo and ends up with Central do Apito.
After 34 years, the broadcaster will no longer have former referees on its broadcasts.
Two reasons led to the end of the painting: the public’s rejection and the arrival of the VAR.
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Source: Caras
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