FIFA: council to validate video assistant referees for the World Cup at Session 6 on 16/03/2018

The minutes of the 132^nd Annual Business Meeting of the IFAB (in Zurich, SUI, 03/03/2018) appeared on the agenda of Session 6 of the FIFA Council in Bogota (COL), on Friday 16/03/2018.

It was at this recent meeting that the international board validated video assistant referees. The FIFA Council is expected to announce that this technology will be used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. "We have come to the conclusion that video support is good for football and refereeing, it makes the game fair," said FIFA President Gianni Infantino after the meeting. IFAB, 03/03/2018.

Among the other points that will be discussed in Bogota is the designation of the host countries of two World Cups for the youth categories in 2019, that of the U17 and the U20.

Video assistant referees: the four possible cases of intervention on video

• The video assistant refereeing will be used in Ligue 1 Conforama, in the Premier League and in LaLiga Santander from 2018-19.
  • The Bundesliga and Serie A TIM already use this…