UEFA respond to controversial VAR changes with penalty tweak a "no go"

Daily Mirror

5 days ago

UEFA have made it known that they do not want to give VAR more influence over games and strongly oppose the proposal to rid of rebounds once a goalkeeper has saved a penalty
UEFA have made it clear they will look to stop increasing VAR powers with potential rule changes allowing them to intervene on corners and second yellow cards.
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The International FA Board (IFAB) are responsible for making and tweaking football's laws and are considering giving those on VAR greater scope to intervene in matches - but UEFA doesn't want their influence to grow any further than it already is.
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IFAB's most controversial and radical change though would be to penalties and bring an end to the concept of a player scoring from a rebound. UEFA strongly oppose the idea of the new law, which means if a goalkeeper saves the kick, the ball is declared 'dead' and a goal cannot be scored from a follow-up.
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A senior UEFA source told The Times that the current penalty proposal was a 'no go' and giving VAR more room to involve themselves in games would be "hard to tolerate".
UEFA claim the increase in delays, which would come as a result of VAR getting more scope to communicate with officials, would counter any benefit from the extra interventions and the possibility of more correct decisions, although these are still subjective.
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European football's governing body insists there needs be talks between football's leaders, IFAB and FIFA before any new proposals are submitted. UEFA were unhappy that approved changes to the laws of the game in March were done without consulting them.
A recent tweak now means the goalkeeper concedes a corner instead of an indirect free kick for holding on to the ball longer than eight seconds. Any law changes approved next March would mean they are implemented for the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
VAR has continued to make errors on the club and international stage. At the last World Cup in Qatar Portugal were awarded a penalty which may believed to be the wrong call. In the same tournament Antoine Griezmann wrongly had a goal ruled out for France.
Those in favour of giving VAR more scope believe they should be able to intervene for factual errors, which includes overturning a wrong corner decisions. Allowing them to intervene for second yellow cards is seen as much more controversial given their subjective nature.
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