The implementation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the Premier Soccer League is moving at a rapid pace and now vice-president of the CAF Referees Committee and Chairman of SAFA Referees Committee, Victor Gomes has provided the latest update on the technology.
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Cries for the implementation of VAR in the PSL have been growing louder by the week, as questionable refereeing decisions continue to hog the spotlight and it comes at a cost to a number of teams and spectators alike.
There have been murmurs about VAR coming to the league over the last year or so, though there has been no official word of when the technology will hit our shores.
But the innovation appears closer than initially anticipated with crunch budget talks set to take place over the next few weeks.
“We’re sitting for some budgetary costs in the next two weeks, and that’s how far we are already," Gomes told journalists at the COSAFA Awards in Sandton.
“We’ve been working for the past year but it’s not something that you can switch on and say, ‘we’re ready to do it.’ You need to go through the processes and the budgets, so it’s quite intense.
“VAR is the future of football. It will help the PSL, it will help any league in the world. VAR is here to stay.
“We [the PSL] are not ready, but it’s a process. I keep saying that it’s like a pilot license, there are a certain number of hours that referees need to go through. We are ready to start their training and I would say it’s not only referees, the broadcasters and all of that stuff need to come on board with that. It’s a big process and we don’t want to rush something and get it wrong. We want to bring it in and do it correctly so that everybody trusts it,” he said.
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