Former FIFA referee Alexei Nikolaev in a conversation with , he expressed the opinion that with the introduction of offside lines in the MIR Russian Premier League (RPL), there would be more order in the refereeing.
On Thursday, Chairman of the Refereeing Commission of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Pavel Kamantsev said that the system for determining offside lines will be tested in two matches of the 16th round of the First League Russian (RPL) MIR. Last season and at the start of the 2023/24 season, the video assistant referee (VAR) system in Russia operated without offside lines. In controversial offside situations, the video assistants could not intervene, but relied on the decision of the assistant referees. According to Kamantsev, “if the test passes, the system will be launched.” The 16th round matches will take place at the end of November.
— It is difficult to say whether offside lines will solve many of the problems in Russian refereeing. In the 12th round, the problems became clear and they were not related to offside, but to the referees’ interaction with the VAR center. Of course, viewers and experts will have fewer questions. A line will be drawn and you can’t really challenge it.
We see that the ESC makes a decision on an error, but at the same time refers to the lack of lines and thereby says that the VAR had no right to intervene. With the introduction of offside lines there will be more order, that’s for sure. Of course, the line on the screen refers us to computer and television football, but we are going this way because we need fewer scandals. Everyone is moving in this direction, including us,” Nikolaev told .
The previous operator of the offside line system in Russia was the British company Hawk-Eye Innovations, which operated from 2019 until the end of the contract at the end of the 2021/22 season, which did not could have been extended due to sanctions. In August 2023, Chinese company Beijing Rigor Technology received a certificate from the International Football Federation (FIFA) for the use of virtual offside lines that will be used during RPL matches.
Source : MatchTV
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