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<\/p>\nCeferin has been left unimpressed by some of the decisions taken by the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have a long nose, you are in an offside position these days.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso the lines are drawn by the VARS. So it\u2019s a bit subjective drawing of objective criteria.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo our proposal will be \u2013 we will discuss this with our referees division \u2013 that it is a tolerance of 10-20 centimetres.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecond thing, we had at UEFA the top coaches two weeks ago, in Nyon. There was Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Max Allegri, Carlo Ancelotti, Zinedine Zidane.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the top coaches of European teams, and our referee officer, Roberto Rossetti shows a handball. He says: \u2018Handball or not?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHalf the room said yes. Half said no. So tell me how clear the rule is. We don\u2019t know anything!<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, let me think about the Liverpool game against Manchester City. Was that handball or not?<\/p>\n
\u201cSome referees in England, they don\u2019t even check.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Italy they check for half an hour. You know, it\u2019s a mess.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was never a big fan fan of this. Now these days you see that linesmen don\u2019t even bother to lift the flag anymore. They wait, wait, wait.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players? They don\u2019t celebrate. Now they wait first for the VAR. And as I said, handball \u2013 no one can explain what is handball and what is not.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is intentional? The referee is not a psychiatrist to know if you did it on purpose or not!\u201d Ceferin said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UEFA President, Aleksander Ceferin, has lashed out at the Video Assistant Referees (VAR), the UK Mirror reports. Ceferin has been left unimpressed by some of the decisions taken by the technology. \u201cIf you have a long nose, you are in an offside position these days. \u201cAlso the lines are drawn by the VARS. So it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7415,7847],"class_list":["post-172939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-uefa","tag-var"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}