Referee of Premier Football League: To use VAR, a culture must be created/players should cooperate

According to the sports reporter of Fars news agency, Vahid Kazemi said on the sidelines of the half-season class of the country’s football referees: Every year we have this class in the pre-season and half-season, it is a knowledge-enhancing class. Fortunately, they took physical fitness tests based on FIFA standards on the football field. Thank God, most of the judges were well prepared.

He added: “Last day there was a scene analysis class, where the scenes were reviewed and reviewed by the good teacher of FIFA and AFC Masoud Moradi.” God willing, fewer mistakes will be made by referees in the second half of the season.

The referee of the Football Premier League said about the use of the VAR system as well as the radio communication system: Mehdi Taj announced that this will happen soon. We also welcome this very much. I and other international referees unfortunately lost because we definitely need a license to participate in AFC matches. Working groups have been formed and an agreement has been reached with a company, and the process will take several months. Taj announced that the training of judges will begin in the coming months.

In response to the question of whether he agrees that culture is needed before using anything, Kazemi said: 100%, if it is VAR, there will still be objections. The referee must review the scene and then make his decision. If there is no culture, protests may increase.

Regarding the increasing number of protests against referees, he said: Culture should be created and mistakes should be reduced. We saw that referees made mistakes in the World Cup despite VAR. Even VAR could not intervene. Due to the existing difficult conditions, players and clubs need to cooperate with referees. Finally, something goes wrong. If we cooperate, our football will move better than before.

Regarding Mansouri’s words, Kazemi said: He expressed the concern of all judges. He is of high rank. He judged in the World Cup and brought up the judges’ talks, don’t let his hand hurt, they were very good talks.

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