The FPF (Paulista Football Federation) announced the implementation of the “video challenge” in the semifinals of the Copa Paulista. The tool is the FVS (Football Video Support), which, cheaper than VAR (Video Assistant Referee), will be adopted for the first time in football competitions held in Brazil.
Unlike in VAR, there is no video referee analyzing all moves. Each coach starts the match with the right to request two revisions in four situations: goal, penalty, direct red card or card applied to the wrong player. Then, the country judge himself, with the help of a replay operator, sees the bid in a cabin.
To place the order, the technician must make a circle with the index finger laugh out and give the referee a “challenge request card”. If the request is met, the card is returned to the team commander. That is, successfully in the order, he maintains the number of requests he had. The goals are reviewed by the fourth referee, without the need for request.
The introduction of FVS is part of a strategy of FIFA (International Football Federation) to expand access to video arbitration technologies. The idea is to take the video to competitions with fewer structural resources – as it is the case of Copa Paulista, a secondary competition in the calendar of São Paulo, mostly disputed by clubs without division in the Brazilian Championship.
They are in the semifinals of this commercial year, XV Piracicaba, Grêmio Prudente and Spring. The associations were informed of the news at a meeting of the Technical Council of the competition, on Monday (15). The first matches with the system will take place on Friday (19), Commercial X XV of Piracicaba, and on Saturday (20), Grêmio Prudente x Primavera.
“It is part of the DNA of São Paulo football not only to follow the global trends but also to help write them. We now take another step with Video Support debuting in Brazil, a tool that puts São Paulo once again in the forefront of technology and in tune with the best practices of world football,” said FPF President Reinaldo Carneiro Bastos.
