Baghdad – IA – Maitham Al-Khafaji
International referee Ali Sabah confirmed that the presence of the “WAS“In the Iraqi Stars Professional League matches, he played a major role in resolving refereeing doubts, indicating that this technique clearly contributed to reducing the clubs’ mistakes.
Sabah told the (INA), today, Wednesday: “Video assistant technology had a clear impact in resolving questionable arbitration cases, with the exception of some discretionary cases, according to the vision of the technical referee, the arena, or the assistant referee, and they all work as a single system subject to discretion.”
Sabah added, “The culture of objection and controversy in referees’ decisions is a common situation that will remain even with the presence of the technology.”WAS), due to pressure from the fans, club administrations, and even from coaches and players, but as the matches continue, everyone will get used to dealing with the referee’s decisions and the possibility of changing them,” pointing out that “this technology has clearly contributed to reducing the clubs’ mistakes during the matches, and the evidence is the absence of mistakes.” “Impressive as we enter the tenth round of the local competition.”
Sabah explained that “some arbitration cases witnessed a delay in decision-making, and this is due to several reasons, including the quality of the devices and the slow process of using them, as it is a new technology for the Iraqi league, and some referees are using it for the first time,” noting that “the Football Association contracted with the company (Media Pro).” It is a solid international company for (WAS) Parallel to global systems, and approved by the Asian Confederation.
On the other hand, Sabah confirmed that “the Referees Committee held several meetings with the Iraqi Football Association regarding the wages of the referees, and a batch of the previous season’s wages was paid. The President of the Football Association, Adnan Darjal, also directed that we work quickly to pay the professional league wages for the current season.”