The last announcement of Wenger on the "offside"

The director of development of the world-wide football of the FIFA, Arsène Wenger, announced in front of press in Paris, that the offside could decree through a system "automated in 2022", the same year in that it will celebrate the coming World-wide of Qatar.

"There are a lot of possibilities that the offside automate in 2022", said the ex trainer of the Arsenal without desvelar greater details since it cleared that "I am forced to keep a secret it, but will be the next of the big evolutions of the arbitration".

The statements of Wenger occur to alone two days after the controversial goal of Mbappé that decided the final of the Nations League in the commitment of France in front of Spain in which the ones of Deschamps won 1-2. The forward received the balloon in position advanced, but the VAR conceded the goal because Eric Garcia had touched the spherical previously.

Although in these moments the decisions to decree the offside take resorting to the VAR, Wenger suggests that the intervention of the technology can do that it signal said fault of form automated.

Idea of old dates

This change already had been advanced by the FIFA in June of 2020, when from said entity announced that it was considering "develop technology semi-automated to signal the offside, with the end to offer him to the VAR additional information that simplified the taking of decisions of the referee and optimised the analysis of the images".

Now, as a result of the statements of the ex French trainer, can not descartarse that the project accelerate of face to the imminent World-wide of Qatar in 2022.

What there is by in front

However, before it implement a system of this nature, the authorities of the FIFA will have to publish a complete report on this subject in November before a world-wide summit that would come being before it finish this year to decide if the reform approves or refuses.

A World-wide each two years

Likewise, the also ex míster of the Monaco spoke of his proposal to celebrate a World-wide each two years in place of four. A project that has not been seen with good eyes by teams and organisations of the deport king, mainly the UEFA. With regard to those who express his doubts by his proposal, Wenger affirms "to be open" and "understand the reticencias because there is an emotional appearance" on the referred competition. "The reform that propose is part of a reform of the calendar. I want to reduce the number of parties of classification", detailed

"If the prestige is tied to the distance between the competitions, would be necessary to organise the World-wide each eight years", ironizó Wenger. "We could have a big competition every year, alternating the World-wide with continental tournament like the Eurocopa or the Glass America with 25 days of rest guaranteeed previously to preserve to the players".