The Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the Italian Referees Association (AIA) and DAZN announced this Saturday the agreement whereby, in collaboration with Serie A, they will re-transmit VAR audios with field referees starting this Sunday, the 24th of September.
The agreement, as confirmed by DAZN in a statement, provides for the broadcast of a new television program every Sunday, as soon as the day ends, called ‘Open VAR’, where, with a different guest each week, the AIA will discuss the most relevant phases of refereeing including the conversations between the VAR and field referees, as well as the corresponding images, to understand the decisions and weigh their success or mistakes.
This Sunday this format will be released and the first representative of the AIA to come to comment on the refereeing stages will be the designator of the Italian judges, former international referee Gianluca Rocchi.
“We are facing an important change in the way we communicate in football, with ‘OPEN VAR’ we want to contribute to the creation of a new sports culture in our country, a deep knowledge of the rules of the game which the Italians love the most and know the world of arbitration,” declared the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina.
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“We are pleased to be the first, in the history of Italian football and beyond, to present VAR decisions exclusively in our application through images and, above all, audio. The aim of the innovative and unprecedented This partnership with the FIGC and the AIA, and thanks to the collaboration of the Lega Serie A, is to offer all fans a more exciting experience of Italian football,” he said. Stefano Azzi, CEO of DAZN Italy.
“Technology increasingly offers important support to referees in the management of matches and, at the same time, allows us to respond to an increasingly demanding need, also in terms of transparency, from the millions – million viewers of the sport. most popular in the world, ” he commented Lorenzo Casini, Serie A president.
Source: La Verdad
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