VIRAL: The sentence premonitoria of Cruyff in 2002 on the VAR

The technological novelties of the world of the football are headed by a new 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 calls VAR and bases in the video of assistance of arbitration or videoarbitraje.

In spite of that the VAR is being useful in some played, also is being criticised in others. In fact, the FC Barcelona already suffered a bad interpretation in one of them in the party of LaLiga against the Girona, in which Clément Lenglet was expelled by a supposed codazo in which the own victim recognised that it thought that was lacking his.

Johan Cruyff, considered a visionario of the football, also went it in his moment in relation to the use of the VAR. In fact, in his book 'likes Me the football', edited for the first time in 2002, criticised the possibility that the new technologies went used as it occurs in the actuality. Recently, it has done viral the sentence of his book in which it criticised it.

"If the football is a continuous sport, can not situate a camera and, in a played conflictive, ask that anybody move , gather you in the band, see the images, deliberar, take a decision and afterwards say: 'Come, already it is, we can continue', as it occurs in some sports of the USA can not be. This does not have sense", wrote the ex trainer of the Barça.

THE VAR. Johan Cruyff, 2002 in his book "likes Me the Football". An advanced. Time of reflection. YEAR 2002!!!!! A perla. pic.twitter.com/nbqajoavpx

— Maor Rozen (@CoachMAORROZEN) 2 October 2018

The operation of the VAR

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 confusion of identity.

When the situation deserves it, a referee assistant of video, together with other three assistants of video, review each one of these cases in the room of operations and request to the referee in the terrain of game that make a review in the field looking a monitor of lateral inclination. From here, the referee has the last word.