By Samindra Kunti
September 18 – The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is to ask FIFA permission to use television images to help referees during the 2016 season of the Brazilian topflight Brasileirão.
Last week the Dutch FA argued that video technology is an evolution and not a revolution, highlighting rugby-style video assistant watching from the sidelines and ruling on contentious decisions within a few seconds. They say the system would be easy to administer and implement. The KBVB wants to be given permission to test video technology in live games, but the International FA Board has so far been reluctant in endorsing more technology in the game.
In a meeting between the CBF and representatives of Brazilian clubs the idea of a video referee, who would accompany the live broadcast of the game and be in direct contact with the actual referee, was endorsed.
“We know that it is impossible for human beings to eliminate mistakes in refereeing and therefore we will ask FIFA to approve the use of TV images to help the referees,” said CBF president Marco Polo Del Nero.
The video referee would be responsible for “the correction of technical mistakes or clear disciplinary faults, which may influence the result or the progress of the match directly.”
With its initiative the CBF intends to become a frontrunner in the development of the game. The CBF’s proposal mirrors the KBVB’s ideas with a possible implementation, upon permission by FIFA and IFAB, in the 2016 season of the Brasileirão.
Corinthians currently top the Brasileirão table with 54 points.
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