The president of the Technical Referees Committee justifies the mistakes of VAR

Velasco Carballo is the president of the Technical Committee of Referees and like such went out this Thursday to give the face after finalising LaLiga 2019/2020. The ex referee valued how has been the referee's season and the one of the VAR, a tool that he has defended from the first day. The Madrilenian has defended that this course there have been few failures, even less that the past. "Objectively, the indexes of tarpaulin have been very high, higher that the previous and the assistants have had some spectacular statistics, improving 2% his percentage with regard to the previous year", commented.

A lot of teams have complained this campaign of the VAR and of the use that is him giving. From the Barça even have aimed that the Real Madrid has seen clearly benefited by the videoarbitraje. The president of the CTA criticised that many have put the cry in the sky by played that under the referee's point of view were tarpaulins of the referees and of the own VAR. "Tarpaulins of the referees and of the VAR turn into errors and afterwards in criticisms, for later in controversies, in statistical data, in press releases... It splits of a tarpaulin and arrives to a scandal. It has sucedido and in a lot of occasions", signalled.

"Tarpaulins of the referees and of the VAR have turned into errors and afterwards in controversies"

Nevertheless, the Madrilenian threw also of self-criticism and left clear that the VAR is not perfect and that also has had errors of assessment. This technology depends always of the point of view of a person, in this case of a referee that is in the room VOR, by what at the end the human error is possible. Velasco Carballo does not have any problem in admitting this, although matiza that only it has sucedido "in few occasions".

"We make a mistake when saying that the VAR is not the error zero, is a tool for help. The VAR can not fix all the errors, all the self-evident. The VAR is a person, is not a machine and the VAR also makes a mistake, in few occasions, but also does it. We have to be honest. The referee makes a mistake and the VAR, also. It is necessary to be sincere and recognise what all the world can see. We are autocríticos", stood out.

Velasco Carballo also recognised the errors of the VAR

The ex referee went in to value how have been these errors of which speaks and signalled that the majority were failures to the hour to value the gravity of the played. "They have committed clear errors to the not correcting some played and when going in in some played that it has not been clear and self-evident", said, giving the reason partly to what commented for example Josep Maria Bartomeu in his day​. Besides, it admitted that now the referees have to coexist with the criticism by his work and by the own VAR. "Also it is necessary to recognise that now there are two criticisms mediáticas", declared.

"The VAR helps objectively to the football and doubt that help is not wanting to see a reality"

To the thread of this, wanted to aim that the concept of "clear and self-evident error" to the hour to correct played in the VAR is what has to improve to the hour to use this tool. Besides, it went back to throw of self-criticism and defended again the videoarbitraje. "The big point of improvement or of consensus can be the concept of clear and self-evident error. Of 825 of played that have had, can argue on 15 or 30. We are ambitious but rigorous in the criticism and honest stop to recognise the profits. The VAR helps objectively to the football and doubt that help is not wanting to see a reality", puntualizó.

Finally, it defended the referee's work in an odd season by the coronavirus and for having had to hold more noise mediático of the usual by the supposed favours to the Real Madrid that some have reported. I like president do not allow that it doubt of the knowledge of our referees. It has been a difficult season, atypical, with the referees three months out of the terrain of game, with more noise mediático of the that would wish and of the that is good for the competition. All have developed the work in a climate very above the reality of what was sucediendo", explained.