In Valparaiso the absolute first of the Football Video Support: the Korean coach asks for a penalty, but the referee confirms the decision. Collina: “The answer to those who invoke a more accessible technology”
The Under 20 World Cup in Chile opened with an episode destined to remain in the Annals. In the group B match, played in Valparaiso and won by Ukraine 2-1 against South Korea, the new FIFA system was used for the first time which allows coaches to request the review of key episodes. The Korean technician Lee Chang-Won was the first to take advantage of the novelty: after an alleged penalty foul in the Ukrainian area he delivered the special card to the fourth man to activate check. The Costa Rosetico Keylor Herrera, however, after revising the images, confirmed his choice: no penalty. In the second half, however, it was up to Ukraine to resort to the new tool: the Ham Sun-Woo network, which would have reopened the game, was canceled for millimetric offside in the 52nd minute.
Evolution
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The new mechanism is called Football Video Support (FVS). It is designed as a lighter and cheaper version of the VAR, with a substantial difference: the revision does not start from the referee but from the bench. Each coach has two possibilities per game, valid only for decisive episodes such as goals, penalties, direct expulsions or identity errors. If the request is successful, the team maintains the right to repeat the call; Otherwise it loses it. The system was created to make technology within reach of federations with reduced budgets: less cameras are needed, a reduced technical team and much lower costs than the traditional Var. After the tests at the Blue Stars Youth Cup in Zurich and the Under 20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia in 2024, FIFA chose the Chilean tournament for its first great field test.
“more accessible technology”
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Already on the occasion of the debut in the women’s world championship, the president of the referee commission Fifa Pierluigi Collina had explained how “the football video support is the response to those who ask for more accessible technology and confirms FIFA’s commitment in being avant -garde to make useful tools available to referees”. Collina had also underlined how the system “can be used for the same episodes covered by the VAR, but it is not correct to compare them, because they are born for completely different contexts”.
the beginning of an era
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The debut of the new technology was the frame of a day certainly not without emotions. In addition to the 2-1 of Ukraine on South Korea, Chile landlord has passed New Zealand with the same score, Paraguay folded Panama 3-2 and Japan beat Egypt with a dry 2-0. A worldwide start that marks the beginning of a new era: the FVS promises to change the relationship between benches, referees and decisions that weigh on the fate of the matches forever.
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