July 29 –Conmebol wants to introduce time-outs for VAR checks in a bid to protect playing time as well as allow teams to request reviews of refereeing decisions.
The South American confederation has launched a proposal to address all the playing time that is lost due to lengthy VAR checks. “We recently sent a document to world football’s governing body FIFA and IFAB, the body that determines the rules of the game, asking for the time to be stopped so the minutes ticking by are not a worry” during VAR reviews, Wilson Seneme, CONMEBOL’s refereeing commission president, told AFP.
“We also want to be proactive in that every team has a number of opportunities to ask for their own reviews, as happens in other sports such as volleyball and tennis,” said Seneme.
All major European leagues now use VAR technology, but in South America the video technology is not yet widely applied with Brazil, Paraguay and Colombia the only three countries using it. VAR was first introduced in 2016 and featured at the World Cup in 2018.
The technology however has been controversial at times, often leading to curious decisions and prompting even more controversy off the pitch. “When more countries use this tool in their leagues, football will become more modern and we’ll all adapt more to the use of VAR in decision making,” added Seneme.
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