The former captain of the Colombian national team stated that with this tool, football “changes for the worse”.
Former Colombian footballer Carlos the Pibe Valderrama said on Tuesday that the VAR “is useless” because “the referees do not whistle” and the decisions taken from the review of the video, in his opinion, does not understand even his mother.
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“I thought that the VAR came to help the referees and, on the contrary, the referees do not whistle, they do nothing. They enter the court but they don’t do anything because they don’t make decisions “, Valderrama expressed in a video posted on his YouTube channel.
The former Colombian national team captain, who took part in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the United States in 1994 and France in 1998, said that football “changes for the worse”.
“Even my mom doesn’t understand that VAR,” he said. And he stated that the complaints about the bad arbitrations are not exclusive to Colombia, but have been happening all over the world.
“The same thing happens in other countries: in the Copa Libertadores, in South America, in England, in Spain and in all parts of the world. So, that VAR is useless. Or if not, they take away the referees, because there are some payments there. The referees are clowns because they do not make decisions “, he will criticize.
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Valderrama, 59, said that before the referees made “determinations and were wrong”, something he saw as normal “because they are human beings”.
“It simply came to our notice then. Get on the court and not make a decision. If there is a hand, you have to go to the VAR. If there is a corner kick, you have to go to the VAR; if there is a penalty, you have to go to the VAR “, he lamented.
Considered by many to be the best Colombian footballer of all time, he declared himself radical in the face of the limit of the role of the referees and their assistants.
“Then let the referees take it away, let another new case be invented. Just as it was invented in the VAR, that the match without a referee was invented and that the VAR beeps them “, he concluded the Pibe.