The CBF will make from the quarterfinals of the Women’s Brazil Cup the experimental use of Football Video Support (FVS), video review methodology in which team technicians can ask referees to check bids. FIFA’s FIFA initiative with FVS is part of a planning to evaluate the implementation of this methodology in other competitions.
This will be the first use of FVS by a national association-before the methodology was tested by FIFA in the female Worlds of the U17 and U-20 categories. In search of sampling, use in ten matches is required. That is why the matches of the Women’s Brazil Cup will have the FVS from the quarterfinals until the decision of the competition. To complete the number, CBF invited the Paulista Football Federation to join the tests, using the FVS in the Paulista Football Cup.
The invitation to this pioneer action has made a mobilization at the CBF Arbitration Commission (CA-CBF), which has called the 17 referees and assistants who can whistle the women’s Brazil Cup games, which will have FVs from the quarterfinals. The draw that will define the matches will be this Friday (19), at 11 am, at the headquarters of the CBF.
During the week, they underwent a specific training at the Aeronautics Club in Rio de Janeiro, with FIFA instructors, participating in a remote way, and in the CA-CBF in loco. The activities were theoretical, with the specificities of the new model, and practical, with games to simulate the dynamics to be implemented.
CBF applied the training to 17 referees that will work in the Women’s Brazil Cup. Competition will have FVS from the quarterfinalsCredits: Rafael Ribeiro / CBF
In the FVS, the person responsible for requesting the bidding will be the technician of each team, signaling from a turnover with the index finger and delivering a challenge card to the referee room. Among the similarities with VAR (VARE Assistant Referee) are the nature of the moves that can be checked: goals, penalty decisions, red card punishments and players identity misconceptions. Incidents that run away from this scope cannot be reviewed at the request of the technicians.
However, in the FVS, unlike VAR, there is no departure officer following the video game on Video Room (VOR) booths; Instead of video referees calling the central referee for review, teams may contest decisions from the bids they consider wrong; The central referee analyzes the video bid without aid of video referee, only with the bid replay being displayed on the field monitor at all available angles (in the ARA cabin).
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In the FVS, the bidding is made directly on the monitor installed by the field after requesting one of the techniciansCredits: Rafael Ribeiro / CBF
“Once ceded to the coaches, the teams, the right to request this check, we have technically analyzed with property, knowledge, experience that the referee has, and from there his decision is even more respected, which is what the CBF expects at the end: the fairness of football,” explained Rodrigo Cintra, president of CA-CBF, also confirming that the coaches of the classified teams End of the Women’s Brazil Cup also underwent training to understand the system.
Dynamics
In the FVS, in the absence of VAR’s apparatus, the figure of the room is gaining functions in the match. In addition to control of the departure in general, attention to technical areas and substitutions, support for video equipment is the four-referee, which should check the full attack bid in the case of goal; Check out doubts whether or not the ball came into the goal; communicate with the coaches; Alert the referee on a check request; correctly identify an incident to be checked; Manage check cards delivered; support the referee during the review; Check all charges in penalty shootout; and open and close microphones for ads.
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In the FVS, room-referee gets additional functionsCredits: Rafael Ribeiro / CBF
During the training, referee Jenifer Alves, from the CBF board, alternated between the functions of Central Referee and Wednesday, accustoming to the new attributions. “Now there are several game situations that you have to be aware, not only to the banks. You have to be tuned, feel what the bank asks, understand protocol situations where we can enter and that we can allow or not, and even the situations that the team tries to deceive arbitration. It is very important to be very sharp with the rules of the game,” she said.
At one point in the training game, she received a referee card requesting a review of an expulsion bid. “The coach claimed that there was a disproportionate contact where he reaches the athlete’s face and in the review I analyze the images and see that it is a normal game dispute, where two athletes dispute space, and has the expansion of the arm. It is natural for those who play football to have this contact of the game. So, I return with my decision not to red card,” he described.
Who made the signal with their finger and then handed Jenifer the card for review was coach Bruno Peixe, who enthusiastically sees the implementation of a system that is already established in sports such as volleyball and tennis, citing benefits that believe they have potential to extrapolate the four lines.
To request a review of a bid, technician delivers the card to fourth-arbitraCredits: Rafael Ribeiro / CBF
“The experience was very productive, because it comes into an even educational character. You have to be honest, and if you are not losing your card in case you ask for an unparalleled review. So you need to be sure of what you are asking. This goes through the athletes too, which has the right to ask us to review, so we are very clear to them that they are asking.
Last year, during the U17 Women’s World Cup played in the Dominican Republic, referee Daiane Muniz had her first contact with the FVS, tested in the youth competition. With the imminence of tests at the Women’s Brazil Cup, she reinforced the impression she had abroad.
“I believe that now there will be the need for teams to understand more about the rule of the game, the protocol, because it will need to happen jointly. They will have more autonomy to question some decision of ours. We, as referees, will see the bid, as happens with VAR, and make the best decision for the game. But this will have a limit: two situations that will have the right to ask for this review. These two requests have finished, everything that happens later, if the referee makes a mistake, this error will continue, he will not be able to be corrected, ”he reflected.
