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Like previous World Cups, this World Cup is brilliant, dark horses emerge, strong showdown, bring joy to fans all over the world, this is the meaning of football.

Every World Cup, there will be a topic or focus of controversy. But the difference is that in previous World Cups, disputes focused on "people" such as players, referees and coaches, but the biggest controversy in this World Cup in Qatar was the cool techs on the pitch-VAR (video assistant referee).

"from our point of view, the ball was out of line, but after the referee communicated with VAR, it was finally decided that the goal was valid." In the third round match between Japan and Spain in Group E of the World Cup, the commentator said. This became the most controversial decision so far in this World Cup, and VAR was immediately pushed into the limelight.

Huang Jianxiang, a well-known sports commentator and commentator in China, said on Weibo that VAR ruined football, just as special effects ruined movies. This year's World Cup champion has been born: VAR. However, some supporters say that VAR can make decisions more accurate and make football matches fairer.

1. Fans said that "the game is getting uglier and uglier." on June 16, 2018, the referee was reminded by VAR to change the decision to a penalty in the group C match between France and Australia in Russia's World Cup, which was the first appearance of VAR in the World Cup. Four years later, this year's World Cup in Qatar upgraded the auxiliary penalty technology, not only the VAR technology to the extreme, but also the introduction of "semi-automatic offside identification technology".

Under the supervision of the Eye of Technology, all "small moves" have nowhere to hide, but the decision, which seems to be more and more fair, has been disgusted by many fans.

"there were four goals in the first half and three were ruled offside." Veteran fan Zhao Xuwei (a pseudonym) shouted excitedly as he watched the match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia. He told the IT Times that fans watch the game not only at the moment of shooting, but also at the fierce confrontation, teamwork and technical competition on the field, all of which need to be done in one go.

Picture source: Sports Illustrated does not matter whether the VAR system is right or wrong, as far as a game is concerned, because of the VAR penalty, the referee has stopped many times, which has seriously affected the fluency and consistency of the football match.

In the group stage against Saudi Arabia, for example, Argentina was stopped seven times because of offside in the first half, which has exceeded Argentina's total of six offsides in the 2018 World Cup. According to media statistics, this is the largest number of offside games since the introduction of VAR video assistant referees in the World Cup.

In addition to offside, frequent penalty kicks also make resistant, tactically changeable football matches boring. According to the data, the total number of penalties at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was 13, while at this year's World Cup, 14 penalties have been scored in the group stage alone. "it depends on movement, tactics, penalty shootout." Zhao Xuwei said.

Many people believe that over-reliance on technology leaves football with cold data, just like letting AI write, which can be cited by classics, but lacks human emotion.

Liu Xingliang, director of the DCCI Internet Research Institute and an Internet expert, wrote that technology helps referees make more accurate decisions, but this means that some flowing games and wonderful matching goals will be blown away. From the audience's point of view, the experience is too bad, because every fan watching the live broadcast in front of the screen will rely on his own naked eye and experience to judge, which is in contradiction with VAR.

Take the second ball between Japan and Spain as an example, many spectators and commentators can see that the ball has gone out of bounds, but VAR shows that the ball coincides with the bottom line by 1.88mm and determines that the goal is valid.

"Sports competitions have become appendages of scientific and technological products, lose human factors and become cold. I don't want to see it." Liu Xingliang believes that the contradiction between science and technology and human nature should be the biggest dilemma of the World Cup. How to find the right degree between science and technology and human nature is a big problem that FIFA needs to solve as soon as possible.

2. VAR can't do iron tenderness in Weibo, what Huang Jianxiang expressed is not the negation of the accuracy and fairness of VAR, but that the power of judgment is completely handed over to VAR, which leads to the overconcentration of power. "referees exist in name only", "technology can replace human referees" and other words are also rampant.

"I think the main role of VAR is to help the referee make a fair judgment, and it is unlikely to replace the referee." Lin Kui (a pseudonym), a national first-class football referee, told the IT Times that at present, the referee still has the greatest power on the court, and VAR only provides a reference to reduce the error rate; it is still up to the referee to decide whether to watch the replay or adopt VAR's advice. VAR can intervene only if there are goals, penalties, red cards and mistakes.

Secondly, the referee's job is not only to punish fouls, but also to play a guiding role, such as guiding the correct placement of free kicks, resolving player contradictions and so on, so as to control the order and rhythm of the game.

Finally, the reason why football can make so many fans around the world crazy, in addition to wonderful cooperation and technology, human touch is also a great charm. As the executor of the rules, the referee should not only be fair and impartial, but also try to show the warm side, which VAR can not do.

In the match between Cameroon and Brazil, Abubakar scored a header in the 92nd minute, and Cameroon beat the opponent at 1:0. Abubakar excitedly took off his shirt to celebrate, which is a foul in the football match. Instead of interrupting the exciting moment, referee Elfax waited until Abubakar finished celebrating, then stepped forward with a smile on his face, shook hands with Abubakar and held up his yellow card. Plus the previous yellow card, two yellow to one red, Abubakar was sent off.

It is worth mentioning that Lin also put forward his own views on the most complex and controversial offside rule in football.

"offside decisions have always been controversial, but this time the debate was louder because VAR magnified the details. Whether the 'body hair offside' is decided or not still needs to be judged according to the referee's feeling and the real situation on the court." Lin Yun told reporters that there is no doubt about the role of the "semi-automatic offside system" in making penalties more reasonable and more accurate. As the means of science and technology become more and more refined, offside rules may also be slightly adjusted, but in the end, it is still the rules of science and technology service, rather than changing the rules to adapt to technology.

"I can also understand that fans complain that offside decisions will affect the fluency and viewing experience of the game, but as a referee, the first task is to ensure the accuracy of decisions and the fairness of the game, and consider other things on this basis." Lin Kui said.

3, misjudgment is still a part of football 1.88mm overlap, "body hair" offside line, a strand of hair touched the ball …... Just as VAR showed millimeter accuracy, it also ushered in the first miscalculation of this World Cup.

In the second round match between Uruguay and Portugal in Group H, during stoppage time, B Fei broke through the restricted area, Uruguayan player Jimenez fell in the restricted area because of defense, instinctively touched the ball with his hands, and the referee Fagani was reminded to watch the VAR and mistakenly awarded a penalty to Portugal. Finally, Portugal beat Uruguay at 2:0.

Educardo, an official of the Uruguayan Football Association, revealed that Corinne, chairman of the FIFA referee committee, admitted that the penalty was a misjudgment.

Educardo said: "the referee held the yardstick well for Jimenez's ball, but VAR stopped him and made a wrong decision."

However, the misjudgment rate on the court is much lower than before VAR, and the "hand of God" has become an eternal classic and may not happen again.

Data show that in the first 48 games of the 2018 World Cup, the VAR checked a total of 335 events, with an average of 7 events per match, of which the referee watched the replay 14 times and the VAR team watched the replay 3 times against suspected events. In these cases, even without the help of VAR, the referee correctly decided 95% of the fouls, but with the participation of VAR, the accuracy was improved to 99.3% and 14 penalties were revised.

After the 2018 World Cup in Russia, FIFA referee committee chairman Corinne and his colleagues said that the use of VAR was an initial success. "We have been saying that VAR does not mean perfect, mistakes or mistakes cannot be eliminated, but I believe 99.3% is a near-perfect number." Four years later, Corinne said.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: IT Times (ID:vittimes), author: Shen Yibin, Editor: Qian Lifu, kicked Girl, typesetting: Ji Jiaying

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