Match officers explaining VAR choices reside to stadiums and tv audiences for FIFA Women’s World Cup video games will make the method “more transparent”, FIFA’s referee chief Pierluigi Collina mentioned on Tuesday.
The idea might be used at a serious event for the primary time when the World Cup begins on Thursday, having been trialled on the males’s Club World Cup in Morocco this yr and the boys’s U20 World Cup in Argentina final month.
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Collina, chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, instructed reporters that there had been optimistic suggestions from the trials.
“We want to give more transparency, more understanding of the decision made by the referee,” the Italian mentioned.
“The referees here in Sydney have already practised at the training grounds using the PA system and things are going well. We are very confident this new tool will be very positive.”
Fans have lengthy known as for extra transparency over VAR choices.
Match officers on the World Cup in New Zealand and Australia will seek the advice of a display on the facet of the pitch earlier than relaying their choice, the explanation for it, the gamers concerned and a short description of the incident by the PA system through a microphone on their shirt.
Collina admitted to some trepidation with referees required to clarify in English, which isn’t the mom tongue for a lot of, including additional stress.
“In anything there are pros and cons,” he mentioned. “After we will discuss and consider what is best for the future.”
Referees are additionally underneath instruction to clamp down on time-wasting on the World Cup.
