After the fourth date of the 2023 LPF Cup, the AFA decided to make public some dialogues between the referees and the VAR for the first time.
The Video Assistance Referee came to football to stay. And in Argentina it has been implemented since the end of March 2022, but one of the most requested issues, in the quest for greater transparency, was that the conversations carried out by the on-field referee and those responsible for judging the plays from the stand would take place. installed in Ezeiza.
In domestic competition, the VAR It has interventions in specific situations: confirming or rectifying the sanction of a penalty, validating or invalidating a goal scored or situations where this can be punished by expulsion or, in any case, its cancellation.
Finally, the requirement to know the dialogues came into effect and the September 18thafter date 4 of the 2023 Professional League Cup was played, the exchanges in specific games of three matches in particular were known: San Lorenzo – Racing, Independent – Huracán and Colón – Rosario Centralpublished on the official AFA YouTube account.
WHICH AUDIOS ARE PUBLISHED
In the official statement, the organization states that “HE will publish audio and videos on its official channels at the end of each date of the League Cup, analyzing specific games that pose some difficulties in solving them. The purpose of this decision is to clarify the duties of the referees during matches”.
Although there were no details on which forms of play will be analyzed, nor whether certain matches will be chosen, Federico Beligoy explained a few days ago that one of the problems to be solved is the lexicon used in this communication. “The audios will be made public when we decide, when we think our team is 100% prepared. If they have the background, the route and the associated exercise so that they also know that the audios will now be played.”
Furthermore, he stated that “we remain observers in the huts, sometimes he has failed expressions or a bad word. We need them to adapt to working with VAR, to be 100% confident in what they are doing. From there we can show the audio and videos without any problems.”
Source: Goal
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