This is the decision of the president of the Zhytomyr club
Director of Media, Marketing and Sponsorship FC Polissya Alexander Denisov commented on the situation with the refusal of Alexandria, with which the Zhytomyr team to play on August 26 in the fifth round of the Premier League, from using the VAR system in the match, and also told what decision the club president Gennady Butkevich made. Recall, according to Sport Arena, Oleksandriya refused to use VAR at the game and did not accept Polesia’s offer to equally pay for the video assistant referee system.
“We started negotiations on the work of the VAR at the Oleksandriya-Polesye match earlier,” said Alexander Denisov. – First, we asked if Alexandria plans to apply for VAR for this game. We got the answer “no”. Realizing that now the clubs have different and not always simple situations, including financial ones, they offered Alexandria to attract VAR for the match with Polesie on parity terms: each of the clubs will pay 50% of the cost. But they also got rejected.
I do not want and should not go into conspiracy theories. We are just experiencing this for the first time. For example, with the same Dnipro-1, the match with which we played in Uzhgorod, we quickly agreed that the clubs would pay equally for the work of the VAR system. Accordingly, in the second round match, which is scheduled in Zhytomyr, Polesie and Dnipro-1 will also share the cost of VAR.
Given our position, which is to facilitate the work of referees, of course, as much as possible, including with the help of VAR, the president of the football club, Gennady Butkevich, decided to order a video assistant referee system at the expense of the Polissya football club. This is not prohibited by the regulation and regulation of the VAR application procedure. I repeat once again, neither Alexandria nor Polissya violated the regulations. This is a question, perhaps, of gentlemen’s relations in Ukrainian football.
As for Polesie, of course, now no one can think far in advance, build some far-reaching forecasts for the future, but the club plans in the 2023/2024 season to ensure that its matches are played using VAR as much as possible: home matches will definitely take place with by the video assistant referee system, on the road – we will negotiate. Polesye President Gennady Butkevich, as you know, financed the purchase of another VAR car, but we do not ask for any privileges, ordering on a par with other clubs. The cost of VAR for one match is UAH 127,000. Polissya is coming and is ready to make such expenses to make servicing matches easier for referees.”
After four played rounds of the Ukrainian Championship Oleksandriya, having scored seven points, is in fifth place. Polissya with six points in the asset is in eighth position.
Source: Sportarena
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