The sixth anniversary of "The Greatest Change in football" Corina explains past lives and the afterlife
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On the sixth anniversary of the advent of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), the current chairman of the FIFA Referee Committee, the "bald golden whistle" of the year, Corina, through the FIFA official website, interpreted in detail the past life of this "one of the greatest changes in the history of football", and also introduced the semi-automatic offside penalty technology to be used at the 2022 Qatar World Cup, which will make VAR technology faster and more accurate.
The FIFA delegation has just concluded its visit to North and Central America. Corina is in the fourth left, Wenger in the fifth from the left and Infantino in the sixth from the left.
Yesterday (September 1st), just after accompanying FIFA President Infantino to the end of his visit to Central And North America and the Caribbean, Corina's mind went back to the same day six years ago. Because for him, who has made refereeing a lifelong career, it is a moment that will never be forgotten. "I remember very well that on 1 September 2016 it was a historic day when my colleagues and I watched Italy's match against France in Bari and saw the first use of the video assistant referee in an international competition, and we were all curious about the results."
Corina admits that they were all a little nervous at the time, after all, it was the official debut of VAR. But he also vividly remembers that Infantino, who had been FIFA president for several months at the time, and he watched carefully in a box car outside the Bali Stadium that the video assistant referee system was officially used for the first time. "In the six years since, VAR hasn't been the so-called end of football, as some at the time claimed. It has now become an integral part of the sport. To Corina's relief, "It's hard for you to imagine football without VAR right now. ”
VAR has become an integral part of the game of football.
As the famous bald whistle in world football that year, Corina was named one of the 20 people who changed the history of football by UEFA, and was also named the best referee in history by "French Football". For Corina, who has become a part of the history of world football, he has experienced almost every step of the development of VAR technology. "In 2014, we first explored this idea at a meeting of the International Football Association Council, with the aim of preventing incorrect decisions on the pitch that would alter the outcome of the game." Corina recalls, "It still looked like a pipe dream at the time, but it took us two years to make it happen in official international competitions. Over the next two years, Corina and his colleagues brought video assistant refereeing technology to the 2018 World Cup, "We have always believed that VAR will be successful and bring more fairness to football." In that regard, we have proven correct. ”
The success of the 2018 World Cup in Russia was due to the video assistant referee
In Corina's view, the video assistant referee is "one of the most dramatic changes in the history of football" and requires more understanding and support, as well as further improvements and refinements of the technical system. In response to the time-consuming problem of the VAR system and the impact on the smoothness of the game, FIFA's technology and refereeing departments are constantly developing new technical means. "At this year's World Cup in Qatar, we will see semi-automatic offside penalty technology, cooperation with video assistant referees and live referees." Corina said the new technology will speed up decision-making and reduce the time it takes to check if a goal is correct, the VAR will automatically get an image of each offside event, and a new visual graph will also be broadcast on TV and stadiums, giving fans a better understanding of the penalty.
On 1 September 2016, Corina and Infantino, the youngest president ever in FIFA, witnessed the first use of VAR.
It is reported that in order to accelerate the global promotion and use of the VAR system, FIFA will also launch a plan called "VAR LIGHT" after the World Cup, using easier to use, lower-cost products, the formation of a VAR system that uses fewer cameras to adapt to smaller-scale events, and can be promoted and used by video assistant referees in a wider range of the world.