The president of the Norwegian Soccer Federation (NFF) launched an impassioned defence of Video Assistant Referees (VAR) on Wednesday after golf equipment voted to scrap it final week.
Lise Klaveness mentioned the NFF wish to retain video officers however admitted the processes want bettering after appreciable fan protests that noticed fishcakes flung onto the pitch in July final yr.
“Regardless of robust arguments in favour of abolishing VAR, specifically opposition from the elite golf equipment, the governing physique unanimously concluded that the perfect factor for Norwegian soccer is to keep up and develop it,” Klaveness mentioned.
The president added to her case by citing the variety of choices that had been corrected by VAR since its introduction.
A remaining vote on whether or not to maintain VAR in Norway’s top-two tiers is about to happen on the NFF’s congress in early March. The congress is made up of the skilled males’s golf equipment (19 out of 32 voted in favour of axing VAR), profesionnal girls’s groups and beginner groups, in addition to district representatives.
