A new era is dawning in Mexican football; there will be no more secrets in VAR. The Mexican Football Federation announced in a post on its social networks that starting with the 2024 Clausura tournament, ” The central referees of each match will explain their decisions to VAR stadium sound”, NFL style.
Whistlers will only communicate their decisions to the public in games that must be reviewed by VAR. According to the FMF page, the following actions are checked in the Video Assistant Referee: Penalties, expulsions, goals, mistaken identities and unseen incidents.
Armando Archundia– the head of the Arbitration Commission commented on the FMF video.
In this final tournament of 2024, with the permission of the FIFA Refereeing Commission and the International Football Association Council, we are going to implement the explanation that the referee will give in the event of a controversial play.
He later added about the process.
The step is very simple: he goes, checks and, if he has to change the decision, he returns to the field and says: “My decision (…)” and explains the absence of a penalty, goal or foul. player number and team name, it’s so simple and clear.
VAR arrived in Liga MX 4 years ago and has been used to good effect most of the time; However, it is the wrong decisions and mistakes that are most memorable.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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