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137th International Football Association Board (IFAB) meeting

FOR A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS

Secrecy is over! The referees must justify their actions on the field and on TV

Published:18/01/2023 - 19:42h

Updated:18/01/2023 - 21:44h

The IFAB has made it known that refereeing decisions will be explained publicly, as has been done in rugby and American football, based on greater transparency

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The International Football Association Board has given an important twist to the dictaminar that the referees now will have to give explanations of his decisions after reviewing a series of recommendations formulated by part of his his Signposts Advise Technicians and of Football to finals of the year 2022 and like this proceed to the review of the current regulation regarding the performances of the referee in pro to improve the game.

In such sense and in the frame of his Annual Meeting of Businesses, the IFAB has agreed that during a period of 12 months along distinct international competitions, including the coming World-wide Glass of Clubs that will contest in Morocco from 1 February, the present referees in the field and those presents in the room of videoarbitraje will communicate constantly of public way, what will remain collected in the transmissions, adopting a similar system to the of the American football.

Like this it has given it to know the organism through a communiqué: "In the meeting agreed the live communication by part of the referees of the decisions related with the referee assistant of video (VAR) to the public, so much in the stadium as through the televisions, that will test during 12 months in international competitions, and that initially will film in the World-wide of Clubs of the FIFA in Morocco, that begins on 1 February".

By part of the FIFA, have given to know some improvements regarding the use of the VAR as well as the posiblidad that the use of the technology to resolve played difficult to sentence follow expanding and was implemented in a major number of tournaments to world-wide level, minimising like this increasingly the human error in search of a more clean and just game without affecting the sportive show.

Studies on the time of game

Likewise, they have tackled possible measures in function to take advantage of the time of game, always in accordance with the established in the regulation. Previously, trainers like Xavi Hernández, have asked the implementation of the effective time of game in front of the constant losses that produce along a party. However, the studies concernientes to this section hardly are reaching his initial stage.