Sporting asks for disclosure of VAR audios: «Portugal missed an opportunity to be a pioneer» – Sporting
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Miguel Braga applauds the decision of the International Board
Sporting beat Vizela last Friday as a result of a VAR intervention that warned Rui Costa about a penalty committed on Paulinho, a decision that ended up being validated by the referee after consulting the images. Despite this decision, the lions did not like the work of the refereeing team for validating Vizela’s goal after an involuntary intervention by the field judge from Porto, a move that, in the view of the leonine communication director, Miguel Braga, deviated from having been invalidated . However, the official’s main message was the challenge made to the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) and more specifically to the Arbitration Council (CA), where he asked for the VAR audios to be released. “Sporting, in the last two games, drew one game and won another due to the intervention of the VAR. In these cases there would be less doubt if he had listened to the VAR audios and, in August, the president of the CA of the FPF, José Fontelas, said that the CA would following UEFA and FIFA guidelines that also did not disclose them. Five months later, the International Board announced that the decisions will be transmitted even in the stadium…Portugal missed an opportunity to be the pioneer. decisions are made rationally. I believe it is a measure that is here to stay”, he said in the program ‘Raio-X’, broadcast on Sporting TV.
Reinforcing his point of view, Miguel Braga gave the example of Sporting’s last two games to underline the importance of VAR. “It’s a very clear penalty committed by Paulinho, as it was in the last game with Benfica. VAR is a tool that has changed football for the better. Portugal was at the forefront of the implementation of VAR and the VAR audio was the step next . Now FIFA wants to start the tests in the Club World Cup. I hope that the FPF is attentive to implement this because it allows us to understand the rationale in these decision-making”, he stressed.
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