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FIFA president Gianni Infantino believes there is a realistic chance video assistant referees will be used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
\nVideo assistance was introduced to support referees with \u201cgame-changing\u201d decisions for the first time in a FIFA competition at the Club World Cup in Japan in December.
\nThe four areas covered by the VAR official were goals, penalties, red cards and cases of mistaken identity and, although there was controversy over the delayed award of a penalty during the tournament, Infantino would like to see the technology fine-tuned in time for next year\u2019s World Cup.
\nSpeaking at a press conference following a meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) at Wembley on Friday, he said: \u201cThat is our aim. I\u2019m very confident. The signs are encouraging.
\n\u201cThe little hiccups we have seen are to do with the training of the referees, but they will be able to take decisions much faster when they use it more often.
\n\u201cIt is realistic for us [to use it at the World Cup] because of the experience we had in the Club World Cup last December in Japan.
\n\u201cWe have seen for the referee it is not a big change and they learnt very quickly.
\n\u201cWe will use it for sure in the Confederations Cup, the Under-20 World Cup and the Club World Cup. VAR is positive because it will allow the right decision to be taken in a game-changing circumstance.\u201d
\nFIFA will test the technology with all the candidates to be World Cup referees before IFAB, football\u2019s global ruling making body, decide whether to green light its use at the World Cup at a meeting in March.
\nFootball Association (FA) chief executive Martin Glenn supports the move and said he hopes to introduce VAR technology for the third round of next season\u2019s FA Cup.
\n\u201cI feel very confident given the preparation underway now. I would expect to see video assistant referees from the third round of the FA Cup next season,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cThe evidence of the testing is really encouraging. At the professional level in England, there\u2019s no \u2018if\u2019. It\u2019s not an \u2018if\u2019 it\u2019s a \u2018when\u2019.\u201d
\nThe IFAB meeting produced a plan to allow countries to introduce extra substitutes, sin bins for yellow card offences, and varying match durations.
\nHowever, those ideas will only be used for disability, grassroots and youth football and do not apply in the top divisions or senior internationals.
\nIFAB also plan to consider a \u201cpotentially fairer system for kicks from the penalty mark\u201d.
\nMeanwhile, Glenn revealed the FA is collaborating with the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (PFA) to conduct a wide-ranging study into the damage caused by concussions and heading a football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monitoring Desk FIFA president Gianni Infantino believes there is a realistic chance video assistant referees will be used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Video assistance was introduced to support referees with \u201cgame-changing\u201d decisions for the first time in a FIFA competition at the Club World Cup in Japan in December. The four areas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n