As if football were not already complicated enough with the hands that are and those that are not, the extensions that are scarce or exaggerated, the offsides that are yes or not, the International Board has given free rein to test a fundamental modification to the regulations: the blue card. It would…? A temporary expulsion of 10 minutes for anyone who fouls out a promising scoring situation or for anyone who protests excessively to the referee. But, in both situations, they are not enough for a red card. Of course, two blue cards would determine receiving a red one, as would two yellow cards. The same if a blue and a yellow are given.
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The FIFA He quickly toned down the announcement and clarified that it will be experimented in very low categories, as if to say “don't be afraid, this is very crazy and it could take years until we approve it. If we approve it…” But the idea was launched and is in the analysis phase.
Before the blue card or any other extravagance that would overload and further complicate the referee's work, FIFA and the International Board should take care of the VAR, which is directing football and is the only major prosecutor of the game, a role that was taken away from the referee. . When VAR was approved, we were its staunchest defenders, it is a wonderful technological resource to reduce the margin of error and, essentially, to do justice. However, football always manages to be the black sheep of sports on this topic. In the other disciplines in which video was introduced, such as tennis, basketball or rugby, it works wonderfully. In football, suspicions of fixing increased. It's a shame, a great tool used to remotely control results. Furthermore, he should intervene soberly and on rare occasions, but he gets involved in the entire VAR. Review any skirmish to show that he is there for something. The VAR is perfect, the men are imperfect.
Fluminense vs. Argentinos Juniors. In the photo, judge Alexis Herrera.
Mauro Pimentel. AFP and Néstor Gómez. TIME
Video refereeing did not substantially improve refereeing errors to the level expected. Instead, it increased confusion and criticism towards the application of the regulation. It “officializes” the dispossession, liquefies the blame. Before the fan could insult the referee, now anyone. There are seven individuals in a cabin and it is not known who they are or what they do. The audios began to be disseminated between the VAR officials and the referee to show transparency and clarify, but it obscures. The reality is that, today, the matches are directed by the VAR. They left the judge to decide the side kicks, the midfield fouls, candy. It is not for major sanctions. Penalties, goals, expulsions, offsides, the big thing was monopolized by the VAR. The judge lost autonomy, but it suits him, he offloads the decision to others, if there is an error it is the cabin's, not his. They no longer insult him.
When the VAR calls the referee to review it is like an order. The judge cannot refuse because afterwards they put him in the freezer, as they have done at some point to the best referee in South America, Wilmar Roldan, because the VAR in a match wanted to impose a ruling on him and he continued with his criteria, reaffirming what he had called. That cost Wilmar. At the leadership level, certain contempt is paid at a vile price.
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Match will be repeated due to VAR error
Nestor Gomez. TIME / Genk
It's like the VAR booth needs to justify why it is there, what they are paid for. They believe that they are more than the referee, when they are no more than simple collaborators with him. And it should not be like that, if there is no reason to call the judge, he should not be called. We already saw what the VAR did in the Real Madrid-Almería match. Scandalous. He changed three correct decisions by the referee for three mistakes and Madrid, which lost 2-0 at home, ended up winning 3-2. The most embarrassing thing was a goal by Vinicius with his arm, indisputable. However, what is truly serious – if true – is that the VAR would have hidden the main images from behind the goal, where the hit with the arm was clearly seen. In other words, he would have been misled. If those running the cabin had not gotten involved, Almería would win. The prestigious Alfredo Relaño, honorary president of the newspaper As, is right: “It helped Real Madrid gain three points, but the reputational damage for the club is enormous, this gives fuel to anti-Madridism and can last thirty years, all because of a meddler from the “VAR”. Reputation with arbitrations that has been questioned for decades. And the busybody may be more than that.
On January 26, the Belgian Federation made a historic decision, which can establish jurisprudence and be imitated in other latitudes: it ordered a replay of the Anderlecht 2 – Genk 1 match due to an absurdity of the VAR. Being 0 to 0, Brayan Heynen of Genk took a penalty, it was stopped halfway by goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, of Anderlecht, Yira Sor took the rebound and scored for Genk. At the request of the VAR, the goal was annulled due to Sor's invasion of the area, but it happens that an Anderlecht footballer had also invaded the area before. The regulation was to repeat the throw, but the judge did not do so and continued the game. Genk complained and was unsuccessful, although the Federation finally agreed with him.
Last Monday at Venezuela Pre-Olympic, another nosy intervention from the cabin caused a disaster. Minute 96, Argentina at home 2-1, in a cross, a wine-red player pushed an Argentine defender from behind with both hands, who, out of rage, swung his hand backwards, barely touching the rival. The Ecuadorian referee did not see or did not think there were any errors. The VAR called him and changed his mind: he sanctioned a penalty and expulsion of the Argentine, although first it was a foul by the Venezuelan boy. Then, in the penalty area, there was an invasion of the area by another vinotinto before the execution, but the VAR did not notice it there. They finished 2 to 2. The cabin tied it. It was a foul in attack.
It's not that everything the VAR decides is wrong. Millonarios' goal against América, without VAR, seems like a clear offside, with VAR it is seen that Leonardo Castro is enabled. And the goal was validated. Very good. However, it should be a better used tool. The only place where VAR is pristine and beyond doubt, as expected, is England. There it does work to help the referee, clarify confusing plays and minimize errors. In the Premier they are all equal in the eyes of God.
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Nominally, the impartial person continues to have the final say in the decisions, reality indicates otherwise: if the VAR “suggests” that he go to look at something, he runs a risk by not doing so: being separated. And once they called him, he listened. It seems that most of them go to the review with the preconceived idea that “if the VAR calls me it is because I made a mistake.” The cases in which they do not change their decision after going to the review are exceptional.
The players don't help each other either. They know that the cameras record everything and that the VAR is on the lookout. They have to take care of themselves. Above all, playing with your hands in the area. The slightest grab at 18, even if it does not cut off the attacker's momentum, is considered a penalty. The video does not measure the strength of the grip, it shows that there was a grab.
The VAR was going to mark a before and after in football. It's still a before.
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JORGE BARRAZA
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