Claudio Tapia's phone was on fire on Sunday night
.
The complaints of the leaders of Argentinos Juniors and Racing were heard in WhatsApp messages.
And the next day, the president of the AFA contacted
Federico Beligoy
, director of Arbitration Training, to ask him about the most controversial plays of the weekend.
It was a while before -believe it or burst-
a rude uncollected penalty
in favor of Unión against... Barracas Central,
Chiqui
's team .
All these situations were the comments of the fans in the stands and on social networks.
Also, of the men in suits who usually make a donut on Viamonte street.
“VAR is disappointing.
It is too expensive for us to be inefficient”
, a 'priest' from the Executive Committee
told
Clarín .
The cost is 3 thousand dollars per game plus the expenses of the three referees
(VAR, AVAR and Quality manager) who work in the VOR booth.
That feeling, a
mixture of anger and disappointment
, is shared by most managers.
But
no one complains publicly
.
They do not want the “return”.
They leave this issue, then, left to the fury of supporters and footballers and coaches.
A recent case,
Federico Lanzillota
, Argentinos goalkeeper.
On Sunday, two legitimate goals were annulled against River at the Monumental.
“The only thing I can say is that we feel outraged and feverish. It was clearly seen what happened on the field. The truth is that we are hot. It's not the first time this has happened to us. You have to keep fighting against whoever, sometimes things happen and today, due to things unrelated to football, a great result escapes us on a difficult pitch”
, shot the number one.
The drawing of the lines through the Delta Cast, the Belgian system
, is the meat of controversy.
"There is no precision because it is manual and there are no cameras at all angles," slipped an old referee who knows the corridors of Ezeiza, where the base led by Beligoy is.
How does the system work in the case of the advanced position?
The play is reviewed and the video assistant (a TV operator) runs the images for the booth judges to analyze.
Far from the technology that exists in Europe, where the semi-automatic offside that debuted in the World Cup in Qatar already works, you have to have a good frame.
And it doesn't always happen.
Above all, if the stadium is small or the match does not require a large display of the channels they broadcast.
In addition to the disallowed goals for
Gastón Verón
and
Gabriel Ávalos
, the referee Fernando Rapallini awarded a Paraguayan penalty on Enzo Pérez in which no contact was detected.
There was another action that aroused discussions last Sunday.
It was in Avellaneda, where Racing and Tigre tied 2-2. In the 1-1 goal, scored by
Brian Leizza
, it is not possible to determine that the ball crossed the entire line before Gabriel Arias' spectacular slap.
In none of the repetitions is observed
.
The blue stripe, on the other hand, was drawn behind the finish line.
Andrés Merlos validated after five minutes of deliberation.
In a country devastated by the social and economic crisis, it seems difficult to pretend the
Hawkeye
that in the Premier League had a cost of
161 million pounds sterling.
Not to mention the watch that each referee has and notifies him if the ball crossed the sentencing line or not, whose value is
3,500 euros
.
Thinking about the semi-automatic offside seems like a chimera.
It would be necessary to incorporate a ball with a chip, which
reports 29 data from the players at 50 times per second
.
The goal that Kylian Mbappé
disallowed
at PSG-Bayern Munich in the Champions League round of 16 is clear testimony that the tool works.
It must have been by a millimeter, but Nuno Mendes was offside when he broke the pass that allowed him to face the bottom and set up his teammate, who defined one-on-one with Yann Sommer.
Lisandro López's anger says it all.
Rey Hilfer did not see a penalty, nor did the VAR.
Photo: Capture TV.
Dreaming of the automatic VAR that allows the referees to explain to the whole stadium the decision they made?
It began to work in the Club World Cup that Real Madrid won over the weekend.
Barracas Central is always in the spotlight because of its relationship with Tapia
.
On Monday,
Yael Falcón Pérez
did not collect a clear Francisco Alvarez penalty on Oscar Piris.
In the VAR was
Héctor Paletta
.
The week before, in Junín, Pablo Dóvalo had not collected a scandalous hand, coincidentally from Alvarez himself, in the match with Sarmiento.
The same Dóvalo who on Saturday, at Platense-Atlético Tucumán, sent off Miguel Jacquet for a foul on Cristian Menéndez.
He considered that he cut an OMG (Manifest Goal Occasion), but another squid player arrived to close.
Dóvalo made so much noise that Beligoy appointed him on this 4th date for two VAR matches: this Friday he will be at Gimnasia-Instituto and on Saturday at Newell's-Banfield.
Falcón Pérez will not be a field judge either.
On Saturday he will be in charge of monitoring Lanús-Rosario Central from Ezeiza.
Photo: REUTERS/Rula Rouhana
Rapallini
, whose task is questioned in River-Argentinos (with the close antecedent of the finals between Racing and Boca), will once again be the main referee, this time in Independiente-Defensa y Justicia, on Sunday in Avellaneda.
Instead,
Mauro Vigliano, who assisted him from the VAR, was stopped
.
Some former referees believe that the VAR is handled in a whimsical way
.
“It cannot be that the VAR cameras are the same as those on TV.
The offside in the first goal of Argentinos Juniors did not show it like the people, they drew lines for it to be annulled.
I was a line in the Copa Libertadores and you realize that they draw them as they want”, shot
Gabriel Brazenas
.
And he added: "When I was a referee they called us thieves and corrupt for making decisions alone quickly, so now what happens in Argentine soccer?"
In the previous dates there were also controversies.
After all, it is run by humans
.
And it happens in the big leagues.
In the Premier League, VAR judge John Brooks misshot the lines and disallowed a Brighton goal against Crystal Palace.
And it was frozen.
The problem is that here the environment doubts mistakes.
They are too many.
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