Former UEFA president Michel Platini has rejected the introduction of video technology into football. A fight lost in advance for the former French football star, which considers the use of the VAR as a very bad thing. And it is not the recent events that will prove the opposite.
Football as many lovers of the ball have known it is probably dead. This is at least the opinion of purists, saddened by the increasingly widespread use of VAR.
“VAR is DIY video. It has not brought more justice. Take the final of the World Cup: there was the VAR, and yet, on the first goal scored in France after a free kick by Croatian Mandzukic, for me, there is no Croatian fault. Where is progress, where is justice” Platini told to l’Equipe media.
“Then, on the second French goal (Griezmann penalty), it is the board that calls the referee who becomes a kind of puppet. And there, there is hand or not hand of the Croatian? All Croatian cry involuntarily, and all of France scream in the voluntary hand.
“Where are we going to stop? Maybe tomorrow captains and goalkeepers will have headsets and coaches will be able to talk to them. That way, we will definitely kill football like we have already killed cycling and F1.” Platini added.
Despite the figures put forward by FIFA, which states that the VAR has made 99.3% of good decisions, the 63-year-old does not want to fall into the trap set by the international body.
Michel Platini and former FIFA president Sepp Blatter handed an eight years ban (Source:www.tass.com)
“I know them at FIFA, it’s their job to find statistics that go in their direction. At the limit, the video can really help to judge a ball that crosses or not the line, or for offside, because these decisions are based on specific facts: it’s outside or it’s inside. There is no room for interpretation, but even here it’s dangerous.” Platini said.
Platini was banned by the FIFA ethics committee for financial wrongdoing while he was running for president of world football governing body.
The Frenchman was initially banned for eight years in December 2015 but that suspension was cut to six years by the FIFA appeals committee.
