{"id":32855,"date":"2018-07-22T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32855"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:54:56","slug":"var-needs-time-alireza-faghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/22\/var-needs-time-alireza-faghani\/","title":{"rendered":"VAR needs time: Alireza Faghani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran international referee Alireza Faghani has defended the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), saying video reviews prevented some major mistakes from being made.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faghani along with his countrymen Reza Sokhandan and Mohammad Mansouri took charge of 2018 World Cup third-place match between Belgium and England.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian referee didn\u2019t use VAR in four matches he officiated in Russia but he says it helps to prevent the mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVAR minimizes refereeing mistakes during the competitions. VAR is not complete but it will undoubtedly have to improve in the future,\u201d Faghani said in an interview with Iran\u2019s state-run TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2009, France striker Thierry Henry intentionally handled the ball to set up William Gallas\u2019s decisive goal against the Republic of Ireland in World Cup play-off in Paris. France went through thanks to a refereeing error and Ireland were eliminated with a sense of injustice,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Iran and Portugal match, the referee (Enrique Caceres) awarded Cristiano Ronaldo a penalty following a VAR intervention. And also Iran were awarded a penalty in added time. We can also mention Saeid Ezatolahi\u2019s goal against Spain which was disallowed for offside,\u201d the Iranian referee continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember a match between Persepolis and Zob Ahan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. I gave Zob Ahan a penalty after I thought Persepolis defender Mohsen Bengar touched the ball but replays showed that it was a mistake decision. Persepolis\u2019 fans still criticize me after the years for that decision. So, I think VAR helps football,\u201d Faghani concluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, a total of 455 incidents were checked during the 64 matches played at the World Cup, for an average of 7.1 checks per match, while there were 20 VAR reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran international referee Alireza Faghani has defended the Video Assistant Referee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,93,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-world-cup"],"views":758,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32857,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855\/revisions\/32857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}