The chaos. European clubs have transmitted to the UEFA than it is necessary to recover the VAR of the World Cup in Russia, which was where the tool triumphed without hesitation. And if it was successful, it was because the VAR limited itself to exclusively correcting clamorous errors, without going into retail. Roberto Rosetti, chief arbitrator of the UEFA, is clear: “The VAR should only intervene when it has evident evidence of an obvious error in four determining situations: 1] Goals and fouls that end in a goal. 2] Fouls that lead to a penalty. 3] Red card situations and 4] Identity situations wrong “. But we have passed from that, as he pointed out Ceferin, “to point out offside due to the size of the nose”.
The error. In Switzerlandboth in FIFA like in UEFA, They wonder why the tool has been a total success in tennis and is on its way to a monumental football fiasco.. And it has been concluded that, in reality, tennis only uses video to define whether a ball touches a line or not. It is not used to check if the line has been stepped on during service or if the net has been touched by the racket … In summary, that in tennis technology is not abused, so that the control of the matches remains with the referee, which in football is no longer so clear. In addition, there is a determining difference between tennis and soccer: in tennis the use of the tool is the power of the players, and in football it is the power of the referees. Here may be the key to the matter.
The solution. Logically, the referees do not want to lose control of the VAR, which is their technological whistle. But before the evidence that the tool has risen even above the collegiates themselves, voices have arisen calling for a revolutionary measure: take the VAR from the referees and give it to the players. How? Well as in tennis: that the VAR can only be used twice per party, exclusively in the four cases for which it was created and at the request of the captains, that they would lose the option of claiming the tool again if, on those two occasions, the referee, after consulting the play on television, removes their reason. The rest of the controversial or conflicting plays would have to be resolved by the referee without technological help., except for the hawk's eye on the goal line.