{"id":285044,"date":"2018-11-16T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=285044"},"modified":"2018-11-16T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:57:08","slug":"premier-league-plans-to-implement-video-assistant-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/285044-premier-league-plans-to-implement-video-assistant-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Premier League plans to implement video assistant technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League plans to implement the video assistant referee (VAR) system next season, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/11\/15\/premier-league-var-2019-2020-video-assistant-referee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engadget reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The league has acquired approval from its teams, and will now formally ask FIFA and the International Football Association Board for permission to implement the technology.<\/p>\n<p>VAR allows referees to ask for video analysis of specific moments to ensure that the right decision is made.<\/p>\n<p>Teams previously voted to exclude VAR from the Premier League for the current season.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the system&#8217;s success at the 2018 World Cup, Premier League teams have changed their tune.<\/p>\n<p>Other top leagues, including Spain, Germany, Italy and France, already use VAR, while UEFA plans to implement the system in its three main competitions &#8211; the Champions League, Europa League, and Euros &#8211; by 2020.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/283389-world-electronic-sports-games-qualifiers-to-be-held-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">World Electronic Sports Games qualifiers to be held in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league has acquired approval from its teams, and will now formally ask FIFA and the International Football Association Board for permission to implement the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":285078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25083,41968,55566],"class_list":["post-285044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-fifa","tag-premier-league","tag-var"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285084,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285044\/revisions\/285084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}