Rizzoli: 'The referee must always go to the VAR'

You always have to go to the VAR when the episode is doubtful, or it's up to the video assistant to draw the referee's attention.

“These are the very clear instructions that I gave to my players,” Nicola Rizzoli, Serie A and B designator, underlined in an interview with 'Corriere dello Sport'. “Mariani made a mistake, as did Avar. They know it very well too,” he added, returning to the Juventus incidents.Napoli – I have always been in favor of technology, it's absurd that on the threshold of 2020 the only one not to review the images was the referee”.

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Regarding the novelty of the technological offside, the former referee explained that "offside is an objective fact, technology can solve the problem of interference in the action - he added - In other words, the footballer becomes a machine, a vector, thus being able to establish with precision the moment of departure of the ball and the position, at the same time, of the attacker". Rizzoli's "dream" however is another.

“A decisive step forward will be made by the live clarification. The objective is to be able to communicate, in real time, with the outside world the decision that has just been taken, the reason for the choice – he concluded – Naturally also that of the VAR”.