OFFICIAL: The Champions League will have VAR from eighth

The technological novelties of the world of the football are headed from does months by the VAR, a tool designed to help to the referees with decisions no conclusive through the use of the video, technology that has been in the centre of the debate from his starts. This technology bases  in the video of assistance of arbitration.

The VAR already implanted in the last World-wide contested in Russia and, in spite of that saw a lot of things mejorables, in general lines worked with correction. Other competitions like LaLiga Santander approved the use of the videoarbitraje to reduce the errors of the referees and apurar better in the controversial decisions.

The oddest of all was that the UEFA had not given the consent to use the VAR in a so important competition like the Champìons League and that sometimes has arrived to decide by erroneous decisions. Nevertheless, it has rectified said decision and the president of the UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, confirmed that there will be VAR from eighth of final of the League of Champions.

Besides, also there will be VAR in the final of the UEFA Europe League 2019 and in the final stages of the UEFA Nations League 2019. "We are smart to use the VAR before the initially planned and are convinced that it will be beneficial for our competitions, since it will provide a valuable help to the referees and will allow to reduce the number of wrong decisions", commented Caferin.

The decision was very necessary, since in the maximum competition of Europe to level of clubs were seeing referee's errors so bochornosos like the penalti signalled in favour of the Manchester City after a ridiculous fall in the area of Sterling, extreme of the team 'cityzen'. From eighth, will cost to see failures of that calibrate.

The situations in which the VAR uses

The VAR was approved by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in his Annual General Meeting in the year 2016 to allow the use of sequences of video for like this can review the decisions taken during the course of a party. The system allows that they review four types of cases: goals, penaltis, red cards and confusions of identity.