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Serie A Files List of Proposals to Tweak VAR and More

December 16, 2022 Enrico Passarella Italian Football, Serie A, Serie A 2022-2023

Serie A has compiled a list of potential reforms to submit to FIGC, the Italian Football Association. The League asked to rubber stamp the introduction of the semi-automatic offside, which is already live in the Champions League and the World Cup. It should begin to operate in the Peninsula in January.

It took almost a full day, but the referees eventually came up with an explanation for what happened with the VAR at the end of Salernitana-Juventus.

Explanation Surfaces for VAR Snafu in Juventus-Salernitana

September 13, 2022 Enrico Passarella Italian Football, Juventus, Salernitana, Serie A, Serie A 2022-2023

It took almost a full day, but the referees eventually came up with an explanation for what happened at the end of Salernitana-Juventus, when a late game-winner by Arkadiusz Milik was waived off following a VAR review due to a questionable offside by Leonardo Bonucci.

Serie A to Test Innovative Offside Technology Later This Season

October 29, 2021 Enrico Passarella Italian Football, Serie A

Serie A will continue to be on the forefront of technology, as it happened with VAR a few years back. The semiautomatic offside will be tested in the second half of the season. It will happen offline, therefore it will have no impact on matches at first. It will be a dry run to see whether it is viable.

Former Referee Collina Reflects On VAR at World Football Summit

July 10, 2020 The Cult of Calcio Staff Italian Football, Serie A, World Football Summit

VAR can really save a referee’s career, said Pierluigi Collina in a virtual conversation with football journalist Gabriele Marcotti at the World Football Summit. The former Italian referee fully backed up the introduction of the video assistant technology and discussed how its future evolution may add even greater benefit to the game.

Italian Panelists Discuss Role of Women at World Football Summit

July 6, 2020 Matteo Carnevale Italian Football, Serie A, World Football Summit

Two Italian representatives engaged in an inspiring discussion about the role of women in football today at the World Football Summit. Ornella Desiree Bellia, Head of Professional Football at FIFA, and Magda Pozzo, Strategic Marketing Coordinator of Serie A club Udinese, joined a panel that discussed how women can lead the change in the football world.

Meanwhile in Moscow: Pogba Saves Bleus in Aussies Battle

June 16, 2018 Matteo Carnevale Australia, France, Meanwhile In Moscow, World Cup, World Cup 2018

It took a little help from technology for France to overcome a gritty Australia, and gain their first three points in their World Cup run. The French benefited of the first penalty ever assigned via VAR in a world competition, but coach Didier Deschamps and his boys left Kazan with more doubts than certainties, despite goals scored by Antoine Griezmann and Paul Pogba.

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