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03-07-2016, 02:41 PM
Video referees in soccer could be trialled first in Australia
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Football, or soccer, has yet to use video referees thanks to FIFA's long-held concerns about its impact to the flow to the game.
This is set to change as the*International Football Association Board (IFAB) said it wants to see video assistant referees trialled by the 2017-18 (http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/news/y=2016/m=3/news=ifab-agrees-to-introduce-experiments-with-video-assistant-referees-2768643.html) season at the latest, at a meeting in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday.*
SEE ALSO: Tennis stars Kyrgios and Tomic feud after fake illness claims (http://mashable.com/2016/03/06/kyrgios-tomic-feud-illness/)
Video replays will apply to "game-changing" incidents such as*goals, penalty decisions, direct red card incidents and mistaken identity.*
Controversial moments*such as French international Thierry Henry's handball leading to a goal against Ireland at the UEFA World Cup qualifier in 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJQZs2Sbho), or that wrong red card against Arsenal's Kieran Gibbs in 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_qq4BxMbc&feature=youtu.be&t=2m53s)*—*could be a thing of the past. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/video-referees-football-australia/)
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Football, or soccer, has yet to use video referees thanks to FIFA's long-held concerns about its impact to the flow to the game.
This is set to change as the*International Football Association Board (IFAB) said it wants to see video assistant referees trialled by the 2017-18 (http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/news/y=2016/m=3/news=ifab-agrees-to-introduce-experiments-with-video-assistant-referees-2768643.html) season at the latest, at a meeting in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday.*
SEE ALSO: Tennis stars Kyrgios and Tomic feud after fake illness claims (http://mashable.com/2016/03/06/kyrgios-tomic-feud-illness/)
Video replays will apply to "game-changing" incidents such as*goals, penalty decisions, direct red card incidents and mistaken identity.*
Controversial moments*such as French international Thierry Henry's handball leading to a goal against Ireland at the UEFA World Cup qualifier in 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJQZs2Sbho), or that wrong red card against Arsenal's Kieran Gibbs in 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_qq4BxMbc&feature=youtu.be&t=2m53s)*—*could be a thing of the past. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/video-referees-football-australia/)
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