FIFA officials overseeing the Women’s World Cup preparations have recommended the use of the VAR (Video Assistant Referee) to help referees while officiating.
Gianni Infantino, FIFA President and UEFA leader Aleksander Ceferin, who chaired a meeting on Monday, are also in support of the plan.
Infantino said, “The tests were quite positive, I would of course wish that we do use VAR at the Women’s World.”
VAR was used at the the 2018 World Cup in Russia and is now likely to feature at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France.
According to skyports.com, at a meeting in Miami next week, FIFA’s ruling council is set to ratify video assistants being deployed to help women referees at the June 7 to July 7 tournament in France.
U.S. women’s national team coach Jill Ellis, who brought up the issue at the men’s World Cup last summer in Russia, said on Monday evening that the decision was fantastic.
“It’s great news. I think everyone in our sport realised it was such a positive, and to have now the same access to the same technology, I think it’s great,” Ellis said.
