The videoarbitraje (VAR) and the technologies that will use in the World-wide of Russia 2018

The World-wide Glass of Football 2018 that is about to to celebrate in Russia will have an unprecedented technological presence, and will exert a very influential role during the course of the parties.

The technological novelties of this edition are headed by a new tool designed to help even more 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 (by his acronyms in English) and bases in the video of assistance of arbitration or videoarbitraje.

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 on if it has to review a case by suggestion of his assistants of VAR, and like this change his original decision, keep his original decision after the review, or refuse the option to throw a glimpse to the case. A decision only can revoke if it detects a clear and obvious error when reviewing the video of the case.

The VAR implemented for the first time in the World-wide Glass of Clubs of the FIFA 2016, receiving critical mixed, such as it did it six months afterwards in the Glass FIFA Confederations 2017 in Russia, the first important proof of the system in front of a global audience.

Still they exist doubts on the incoherences between the referees on which situations justify the use of videoarbitraje, as well as they persist the complaints on the time of game that happens during the process of review during the course of a game.

Another appearance of the Glass of the World that experiences his own technological evolution is the balloon of party. For Russia 2018, Adidas revealed the Telstar 18, an intelligent balloon with technological advances never before seen in the history, that also is an ode to the official balloon of the World-wide Glass of 1970.

The most important characteristic of this balloon is the use of a chip of communication of near field (NFC) incrustado in comport them of the same, that allows interactive elements and direct connectivity from an intelligent telephone and other devices, providing an unprecedented personalised experience for the consumer. But the interactiveness does not detain with the Telstar 18. The new technology in the Glass of the World of this summer also has designed to help to the trainers and, especially, to the analysts of the party during the games.

On 16 May, the FIFA announced the implementation of two new devices to allow in the banks of the team the exchange of data of performance of the players during the games. One of the devices will be used by a member of the team of trainers seated in the row of press, the another will be in hands of another member of the personnel in the bank of the team. The data, together with the images of the live game, will send to the device of the member of the personnel seated in the row of press, that can communicate with the member of the personnel in the bank sending fixed images, drawings and using the communication by radius for analytical ends.

Never before the technology had been a so essential part of the game for players, trainers and referees, and the World-wide Glass of Russia 2018 is the perfect stage to measure the impact of the new was technological in the sport.