Fifa have given the thumbs up for VAR to be used at the World Cup in Russia this year.
At last football will be on par with other sporting events that allow the official to use technology to check whether he got it right.
And we won’t have to see things like this again…
We are going to have in 2018, for the first time, a World Cup with VAR,” said Infantino after a meeting of the FIFA Council.
“This has been approved and we are really very happy with this decision.The World Cup, which takes place from June 14-July 15, will see VAR used to judge whether or not a goal has been scored, analyse whether a penalty should be awarded, decide on red cards and rectify if a player has been mistakenly sanctioned.What we want is to help and to give the referee the possibility to have extra help when he has to make important decisions, and in a World Cup we make very important decisions.It cannot be possible that in 2018 everybody, in the stadium or at home, knows in a few seconds if the referee has made a mistake but not the referee himself — not because he doesn’t want to know about it but because we forbid him to know.The VAR is helping the referee and we are going to have a more transparent and fairer game, and that’s what we want.”
Hooray.