PARIS: FIFA on Wednesday defended its VAR review system, saying referees had reached a 98 per cent accuracy rate in decision-making during the group stage of the Women's World Cup in France.
Cameroon's players were so indignant at the VAR interventions during their match against England that they appeared to stop playing on several occasions. A competitive Japan side went out in the last 16 after a controversial penalty decision."VAR cannot be blind, cannot ignore," said Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of FIFA's Referees Committee."If you have a tool that offers you the possibility to check, you have to check.
"We can never be perfect. No one player, no one coach is perfect," Massimo Busacca, Head of FIFA’s Refereeing Department, said on Wednesday."We are not perfect. What’s the problem?" FIFA said 99.3 per cent of match-changing plays - those leading to goals, penalties, red cards or instances of mistaken identity - were called correctly in Russia, a number that would have been 95 per cent without the observational power of VAR.
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