The Problem With VAR

VAR is a match official in association soccer who reviews decisions made by the head referee with the use of video footage and a headset for communication. And you may be thinking that it’s a good idea and why would this be a problem.

For my agent of change I made a short and easy survey that is asking people what they think of VAR, does VAR makes the game fairer, Should VAR stay and why?, and what change would make VAR better? And for my friends that don’t know anything about VAR I sent them Y&TW Passion & Information essay which explains the whole situation and what’s going on in the football world and they knew enough to fill out the survey. So all my friends filled out each question and they had pretty similar answers even my friends who are new to the topic, and their answers were, “it’s decent or it’s bad” and for the question should VAR stay 54.5% said yes it should stay but it should be fixed and 45.5% said no it should be gone.

I feel like I did really good because all I wanted to do was inform people of what is going on with VAR and I also am really happy because I also learned new things about VAR, like how they are keep on changing handball rules because of VAR and the same with offside rules too. And learning more about soccer which is the thing I love the most is just amazing for me and I hope in the future that VAR gets better and there are new topics like this because it is really interesting learning about these things