The Federation and LaLiga make the VAR audios public for the primary time in Spain: “The impact is from behind, squarely on the forward” | Soccer | Sports | EUROtoday

For the primary time in Spanish soccer, the dialogue that happens between referees when the central referee approaches the monitor to overview a play has been made public. The audios got here to gentle late this Saturday, however the match through which the aforementioned overview occurred happened this Friday, when Sevilla obtained and misplaced in opposition to Alavés (2-3) on the Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium. This is the premiere of a measure agreed between the Federation and LaLiga to “publish the images and audio of the conversations between the field referee and the VAR referee when a review of the play occurs on the field monitor.”

In the 77th minute of this match, referee José Hernández Hernández was known as from the VOR room by referee Juan Luis Pulido Santana to overview a attainable penalty in favor of Sevilla for a foul by Carlos Benavídez on Mariano Díaz. The audio revealed this Saturday begins with Hernández Hernández receiving a transparent message from Pulido Santana: “I recommend that you go see the screen.” “Do you have the images ready?” Responds the central referee to make it possible for he isn’t going to waste time by approaching the monitor, after which exclaims “I’m talking!” and dissuade the gamers who have been starting to encompass him.

Just a few moments after acquiring affirmation, Hernández Hernández addresses the monitor. On the way in which he asks for “calm on the bench” with a sure exaltation, after which the verbal alternate begins through which each referees touch upon the play in query. “You see that [Mariano Díaz] “it’s anticipated,” says Pulido Santana from the VOR room, and the central referee asks him for a few more seconds to make the decision: “Let me see who plays the ball, it’s key to see who plays the ball.” Then he requests a front angle of the play.

They give him the shot he requested and, after a few seconds, the verdict is made: “The impact is from behind, squarely on the forward, penalty number 23, no card, only penalty,” he says as if he have been talking to himself. Immediately afterwards he turns round, makes the everyday gesture when there’s a overview and makes his resolution identified to all the Pizjuán, who roars within the background upon listening to the sentence: it’s a penalty. Hernández Hernández dodges a pair extra claims after which locations herself in his place to see how Lucas Ocampos tied the match at that second.

The Spanish Football Federation had introduced only a few weeks in the past that the VAR audios have been going to be made public when the central referee was known as from the VOR room to deliver the monitor nearer. It was anticipated to occur throughout one of many two semi-finals of the Spanish Super Cup, a contest the place there was dialogue between referees, however the place the scenario through which the central referee was requested earlier than the monitor had not but arisen. Finally, the primary event occurred on matchday 20 of LaLiga.

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