Europe’s top leagues have been summoned to a meeting with Uefa in the summer to discuss how video assistant referee (VAR) technology is being used. <\/p>\n
The summit of referee chiefs from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 will discuss how to reset VAR to its intended interpretation of only intervening in the clearest of errors.<\/p>\n
Roberto Rosetti – the head of Uefa’s referees – called the meeting after saying last month the game must not “go in this direction of microscopic VAR interventions”.<\/p>\n
Uefa wants to discuss with leagues how they use VAR, and the thresholds applied.<\/p>\n
“I believe that we forgot the reason why VAR was introduced,” Rosetti said.<\/p>\n
“In objective decisions, it is fantastic. For interpretations, subjective evaluation is more difficult.<\/p>\n
“That’s why we started to speak about clear and obvious mistakes – clear evidence.”<\/p>\n
VAR is operated very differently across Europe.<\/p>\n
The Premier League has the lowest VAR intervention rate this season – 0.275 per game – though that has not meant less controversy over decisions.<\/p>\n
Figures released last month showed the Bundesliga and La Liga come next at 0.38 interventions per game, with Serie A at 0.44 and Ligue 1 at 0.47.<\/p>\n
In the Champions League, interventions are at a rate of 0.45 per game.<\/p>\n
Rosetti also wants all leagues to speak “only one technical language” after controversy over the inconsistent application of laws such as handball.<\/p>\n
It is hoped the meeting could lead to a more universal approach to the laws and with how VAR is used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe’s top leagues have been summoned to a meeting with Uefa in the summer to discuss how video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-532983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}