ZURICH: Football's lawmakers on Saturday approved video assistant referee technology (VAR) for this summer season's World Cup, in probably the most largest adjustments to the sport in years.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), assembly in Zurich, rubber-stamped a move already sponsored through FIFA's top brass, together with president Gianni Infantino.
"We came to the conclusion that VAR is good for football", Infantino informed reporters shortly after IFAB introduced the verdict.
He added that the overall decision to make use of the technology at the World Cup in Russia will be made when the FIFA Council - global soccer's top decision-making frame - meets in Colombia later this month.
"We will hope and encourage the council to take a favourable decision," Infantino stated, voicing confidence that VAR will secure ultimate approval.
IFAB stated in a press release that the verdict "represents a new era for football with video assistance for referees helping to increase fairness in the game".
VAR can simplest be used when there may be doubt surrounding any of four key game-changing eventualities: targets, penalty decisions, straight red playing cards or incorrect identity.
It has already been implemented in top European leagues together with the German Bundesliga and Italy's Serie A - together with checks in a couple of other leagues.
Spain's La Liga on Friday started coaching officials ahead of the technology's expected creation next season.
But opinion is still divided, gamers and bosses have complained of referees being too eager to defer to technology, while fans in stadiums had been left in the dark as to why decisions are being made.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin stated this week that European soccer's governing frame would now not introduce VAR in next season's Champions League due to ongoing "confusion" surrounding its use.
Others have voiced worry about video assistance slowing down the game and most likely breaking a workforce's momentum.
That is a matter confronting main North American sports like baseball and American soccer, where other varieties of video replay had been in use for a number of years leading to renewed calls to shorten the duration of games.
Some sceptics even have reservations about implementing any such important change at the World Cup, before all the kinks had been resolved at lower-profile competition.
But the will to keep away from disputed calls - particularly in a contest with any such huge world audience -- tipped world soccer officials to support the use of VAR at this summer season's match in Russia.
One iconic example that VAR may just theoretically have averted is Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" purpose that saw Argentina beat England within the 1986 World Cup.
For Infantino, world soccer had to make sure World Cup officials have get entry to to the same pictures as fans.
"In 2018 we cannot anymore afford that everyone in the stadium and everyone in front of a TV screen can see within a few minutes on his phone whether the referee has made a big mistake or not, and the only one who cannot see it is the referee", he stated last month.
Representatives of the 32 teams that have certified for the World Cup assembly within the Black Sea hotel of Sochi this week voiced confidence that the expected VAR rollout would be a favorable for the match.
"This is the new life. This is modern life," stated Iran head coach Carlos Queiroz.
"It is obvious that football cannot go on with its eyes closed to the modern world."
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), assembly in Zurich, rubber-stamped a move already sponsored through FIFA's top brass, together with president Gianni Infantino.
"We came to the conclusion that VAR is good for football", Infantino informed reporters shortly after IFAB introduced the verdict.
He added that the overall decision to make use of the technology at the World Cup in Russia will be made when the FIFA Council - global soccer's top decision-making frame - meets in Colombia later this month.
"We will hope and encourage the council to take a favourable decision," Infantino stated, voicing confidence that VAR will secure ultimate approval.
IFAB stated in a press release that the verdict "represents a new era for football with video assistance for referees helping to increase fairness in the game".
VAR can simplest be used when there may be doubt surrounding any of four key game-changing eventualities: targets, penalty decisions, straight red playing cards or incorrect identity.
It has already been implemented in top European leagues together with the German Bundesliga and Italy's Serie A - together with checks in a couple of other leagues.
Spain's La Liga on Friday started coaching officials ahead of the technology's expected creation next season.
But opinion is still divided, gamers and bosses have complained of referees being too eager to defer to technology, while fans in stadiums had been left in the dark as to why decisions are being made.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin stated this week that European soccer's governing frame would now not introduce VAR in next season's Champions League due to ongoing "confusion" surrounding its use.
Others have voiced worry about video assistance slowing down the game and most likely breaking a workforce's momentum.
That is a matter confronting main North American sports like baseball and American soccer, where other varieties of video replay had been in use for a number of years leading to renewed calls to shorten the duration of games.
Some sceptics even have reservations about implementing any such important change at the World Cup, before all the kinks had been resolved at lower-profile competition.
But the will to keep away from disputed calls - particularly in a contest with any such huge world audience -- tipped world soccer officials to support the use of VAR at this summer season's match in Russia.
One iconic example that VAR may just theoretically have averted is Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" purpose that saw Argentina beat England within the 1986 World Cup.
For Infantino, world soccer had to make sure World Cup officials have get entry to to the same pictures as fans.
"In 2018 we cannot anymore afford that everyone in the stadium and everyone in front of a TV screen can see within a few minutes on his phone whether the referee has made a big mistake or not, and the only one who cannot see it is the referee", he stated last month.
Representatives of the 32 teams that have certified for the World Cup assembly within the Black Sea hotel of Sochi this week voiced confidence that the expected VAR rollout would be a favorable for the match.
"This is the new life. This is modern life," stated Iran head coach Carlos Queiroz.
"It is obvious that football cannot go on with its eyes closed to the modern world."
Football rules body IFAB approves use of VAR at World Cup
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