Rudi Garcia: VAR will combat injustice in football

05 set 2018

Rudi Garcia has provided VAR technology with a ringing endorsement, saying that it will help combat the “major injustices” inherent in the game.

Interviewed as UEFA met with a number of elite European managers - including Max Allegri, Carlo Ancelotti, Paulo Fonseca, José Mourinho and Thomas Tuchel - the former Roma Coach has some bad memories of bad refereeing, including a controversial 3-2 loss in 2015-2016 to Scudetto rivals.

The Marseille Coach said that VAR was “a positive innovation” to Ligue 1, which introduced the technology this season after it was used in the FIFA World Cup.

“It won’t solve every single problem, but it will help avoid many of the big injustices you get in football, the kind that clubs and coaches alike don’t appreciate at all.”

VAR technology has already been introduced in Serie A, and recently received an endorsement from Marca since it began to be used in La Liga a few weeks ago.