Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid have just starred in one of the most memorable qualifiers of recent times in the Champions League. The white team left on the way to its city rival in an agonizing penalty shootout where the main conversation issue It is the launch annulled to Julián Álvarezwhich has unleashed all kinds of questions about the use and interpretation of VAR in football.
UEFA himself explained in a statement published on March 13 where he clarified that The Argentine striker touched twice the ballminimally, but enough to be classified as an infraction.
The UEFA statement came accompanied by a video, however, many still did not have completely clear how the referee Szymon Marciniak and the VAR acted so quickly, taking into account that the decision came in just a few moments.
For that Free press He focused with Jonathan Polanco, a Guatemalan ex -arter who had the FIFA badge and was whistling for more than 10 years to share his opinion.
Polanco, which has its own arbitral analysis project in Guatemala, reasoned that The decision to cancel Julián Álvarez’s penalty would not be possible without the use of technology that there are today in competitions as graduates as the Champions League.
“What happens here is that we have to establish that the Champions League competition, which is the most important competition at club levels in Europe, uses first -world technologies that are already implemented by FIFA,” he says.
According to Polanco there were two plays where this is clear, the first, when a hand of Giuliano Simeone is not sanctioned by interpreting that it is not punishable, and the second, that of the penalty of Julián Álvarez.
“Seeing the elements of the situation of the play, which the defender had the arm in a natural position and that in addition to the ball to the arm there was a diversion in one of the player’s thighs, then the video arbitration gave the referee’s decision good and cataloged that the hand was non -sanctionable, it was a success,” he explains about the first action.
Technology cancels the penalty to Julián Álvarez
“Then the controversy was raised for the situation in penalty tanda and it should be clarified that all are reviewed by video barbitraje,” he says.
The key to canceling the penalty according to Polanco, is in the technology technology.
“At the time there is an offside situation, remember that UEFA uses the semi -automatic out of the third -dimensioning image, then in the arbitration room they have to have the exact moment in which the player’s contact begins, which makes the pass with the ball to freeze the image and establish the position of the partner at that time“
“It is also used for this issue of the prison, which is why they, in the video barbita they reviewed and were certain that there was double touch by Julián Álvarez, then informed the referee and he must apply what the regulation says in that issue of launcher infringement, rule number 14,” complements.
“Personally I am a defender of the implementation of technology within football, specifically video arbitration, because a good implementation and good use seeks justice on issues that exceed the human capacity of the referee,” he says.
“It is an almost imperceptible situation for the referee, he did not realize that the player touched the ball, which is why he already needs the help of this technology, of video arbitration to give him certainty whether or not there was an infraction,” he concludes.