Matias Garcia
11/13/2020 2:17 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 11/13/2020 2:17 PM
"What are you going to charge?",
Lionel Scaloni asked the match referee, Brazilian Raphael Claus, who, after Lionel Messi 's goal, had received a call from the VAR (Video Assistant Referee) for an infraction by Nicolás González to Paraguayan Ángel Romero in the origins of the play that led to the Argentine celebration, which finally did not happen.
"Shameful"
, shouted over and over again the coach of the Argentine National Team.
The Brazilian had just sanctioned the foul and the score was tied 1-1.
In total, there were 8 passes in 27 seconds between the offense and the goal,
but everything was stored in the video records.
Impossible to escape the camera lens.
“It is not that we steal the ball and by that direct play we make the goal.
The ball goes to the right side, then to the left and then back to the right, until there are several passes and the goal arrives.
I believe that football like this does not like anyone, honestly, "said the coach of the national team at the press conference.
Scaloni can't believe it.
For a foul by Nicolas Gonzalez to Romero, they canceled Argentina's second goal converted by Messi.
"Shameful!", Shouted the DT of Argentina.
Photo: TV capture.
However, the Conmebol regulations endorse the referee's decision: "The Atacking Possession Phase (attack phase with ball possession) is the period of play during an attack before an incident that can be reviewed."
And he continues: "Defining the point at which the APP begins is subjective and requires deciding when the attacking team clearly advanced with the ball to the penalty area or to the opponent's goal."
So when does the APP end?
"When the defending team gains 'controlled possession' of the ball; that is, when a team defender 'clears the ball' without being under any pressure or clearly controls it or passes it to a teammate."
None of that happened, and therefore
Claus's determination was correct.
Raphael Claus has already made up his mind to annul the goal made by Lionel Messi, who with his head down walks resigned.
Photo: AP / Juan Roncoroni.
"
We would have to add more specifications and be clearer
. For example:
'When the game is lateralized so many times or for so many seconds, the APP ends'.
As we are clearer, there will be less confusion," he said
Miguel Scime
, former Director of Arbitration Training of the AFA, in dialogue with
Clarín
.
On the other hand, the former Argentine referee remarked that the VAR was born in 2016
"to
avoid clear, obvious and manifest errors
" and that
"when that objective is distorted and they start looking for ants instead of an elephant that the referee did not see, the first mistake begins".
“
The referees who are in charge of managing the VAR are innocent
.
It's all the fault of the whirlwind training classes and the various drops of the line they receive.
How is it solved?
Easy, training the instructors, who are the ones who teach, "he
added.
Jumping with both knees on the back of an opponent ... isn't it brutality ???
On page 123 of the Laws of the Game we read the following as grounds for direct expulsion: pic.twitter.com/cQ76TXhmT8
- Javier Castrilli (@castrillijavier) November 13, 2020
The truth is that the VAR was - again - at the center of the controversy.
The precision and rigor used to notify the referee of González's infraction were conspicuous by their absence in other sections of the match.
They forgot to notify Claus of the elbow and aerial knee that Ángel Romero gave Exequiel Palacios
, who left the court with a transverse process fracture of the lumbar spine.
Brazilian Wilson Seneme is the president of the Conmebol Arbitration Commission.
For the Argentine Miguel Scime the solution is easy: "We have to train more instructors, who are the ones who teach."
Photo: AFP / Norberto Duarte.
They also did not intervene after Paraguayan Fabián Balbuena invaded the area in the play of the penalty
kicked by Ángel Romero (IFAB regulations say that if a player from the attacking team enters the area and there is a goal, the penalty must be repeated).
In addition, the hand inside the area of Nicolás Otamendi was not reviewed by the Brazilian, who was close to the play and could have interpreted that the Argentine defender's arm expanded the volume of the body because he was preparing to jump, so it was a natural movement.
However,
the hands within the area have a regulation as changing as it is controversial
.
Without going any further, UEFA sent a letter to FIFA days ago to modify the regulations regarding hand sanctions: "There are several cases of excessive penalties for involuntary contact by players with the arm or the hand and the ball" .
"
The referees no longer know when it is a hand and when it is not
. The same hand is sanctioned differently depending on who observes it. This is because
information is very distorted and complex,
" explained Scime.
After the Peru vs Brazil and Argentina vs Paraguay game we are in a position to affirm that the VAR in the hands of the South American referees is like giving a monkey a knife ...
- Javier Castrilli (@castrillijavier) November 13, 2020
Meanwhile, once the match between Argentina and Paraguay was over, the former Argentine referee Javier Castrilli pointed out against the VAR on his social networks:
"We are in a position to affirm that the VAR in the hands of the South American referees is like giving a knife to a monkey".
Palacios was fractured by those who from the football leadership pretend to be referees SACADORES DE PARTIDOS ... as central and from the VAR ...
- Javier Castrilli (@castrillijavier) November 13, 2020
For his part, Héctor Baldassi, who was the VAR's international advisor in the match played at La Bombonera, apologized to
Clarí
n because, “as a member of Conmebol,”
he is not authorized to provide opinions that involve his work.
This is the message sent by the former Cordoba referee:
"Hello teacher (yes, I apologize, but as a member of Conmebol I cannot give an opinion, I hope you understand me please, hugs".
The VAR, which came to highlight pinpoint offsides and to end gross injustices, continues to cause more problems than it solves.
In the tireless quest to achieve perfect objectivity, he stumbles over and over again with subjectivity;
that is, with the human factor.
Whether technology denatures and removes spontaneity from the game or if it helps prevent the repetition of the mistakes that for years were present in the most popular sport on the planet is another discussion.
Another crack that, for the moment, does not seem to go away.
The truth is that mistakes are usually the product of the criteria used by the judge who operates the VAR and not of the technology itself.
JCH.