I was surprised by the result of the Argentina – Saudi Arabia match, at one point I looked at the web and it announced that Argentina had won its first match in the World Cup 1-0 against Saudi Arabia 15 minutes later and the news had completely changed radically saying that Saudi Arabia beat Argentina 2-1, well, two goals in the last few minutes, quite questionable but possible.
Later I observed that three goals were canceled against the Argentine team through the controversial VAR system, before continuing I am going to clarify that it is not
a fan or a fan of the Argentine national team, but what I do want to do now is call them to reflect on this technology.
The Var or video arbitration, basically consisting of filming from various cameras what happens in the game, as a kind of support for the referee, the referee in his decision-making has always been a controversial tool and the curious thing is that it was born to banish the controversies about possible transgressions to the rules of the sport.
For many years now, different authoritative voices have maintained otherwise, for example, on April 18, 2022, the newspaper La Nación itself published that the VAR in Argentina has not been efficient against hands within the area, the newspaper El Litoral raised the opinion of a veteran referee Javier castrilli who maintained that the bar is used to manipulate more easily and that this is a corrupt technique.
In other words, that it serves to steal the results of soccer matches, on that occasion the referee maintained that no human can be unaware that there were fouls in the Brazilian area and two penalties that were ignored against Argentina that deprived them of their respective rights and that, furthermore, the reasons will be completely diffuse, practically hidden, and that this constituted a supine gravity, all of this referring to a match between Argentina and Brazil played in the city of Sao Pablo in July 2019.
It has not been the only controversies surrounding the use of this technology and not only in Argentina but in many other countries questions abound about this type of technology, on this last occasion the VAR awarded a penalty to Argentina that served to carry out a goal for Lionel Messi against Saudi Arabia, but also three goals and in short this intervention ended up sentencing the albiceleste to defeat.
FIFA will not publish the VAR audios in Qatar 2022 Souce
The novelty of the Var or video arbitration system that is used in this World Cup in Qatar is another great experiment to expand technocracy in all kinds of fields, the novelty is that now we depend more on technology than on human beings, it is a semi-automated system where artificial intelligence intervenes, beyond the 12 cameras of the stadium the ball has chips with an inertial measurement unit that presumably automatically detects non-regulatory positions.
It is a sensor that sends information 500 times per second to the video room and whose logic operates through artificial intelligence, that is, it has its own criteria that, based on that criteria of the machine, the information reaches the video arbitration room. which in turn relays it to the referee.
FIFA defends this, saying that it facilitates faster, accurate and reliable decisions, and its peculiar president Gianni Infantino is fully committed to the new system, which he maintains is the result of three years of painstaking research, of numerous trials, that semi-automated technology makes them proud. and that there is nothing to fear, however, in the leafy list of criticisms of this Gentleman, FiFA in general and the organization of this World Cup, it is included that they will not publish and not have access to anyone outside the organization to the audios that the bar refers to the respective referees.
On the other hand, various experts in hardware software and artificial intelligence have argued that it is a hackable, manipulable system and that this obscurantism does nothing to help establish fair play or any type of transparency in such an important competition as this World Cup. football 2022, draw your own conclusions.
