UEFA: VAR technology to be introduced six months earlier than expected in the Champions League

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The UEFA Executive Committee decided to introduce Video Assistant Referees (VAR) in the Champions League from the knockout stages of 2018-19 (first games on 12/02 to 13/03/2019), announces the European confederation on 03/12/2018.

This decision contradicts that taken by UEFA two months earlier: "The UEFA Executive Committee met this morning...

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