COSAFA, the body that manages the regional football tournament at all levels, is about to embark on a new era of football technology with the acquisition of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) equipment to be implemented in its tournaments and used as a teaching tool for referee training purposes on the continent. COSAFA management is already in possession of the equipment and will begin using it in the senior men’s tournament, which will take place next June , in neighboring South Africa. After a successful pilot project last year at the COSAFA Women’s tournament, the aim is now to have VAR in all regional competitions in the future. But the system will also be used to train referees, an experiment which is already being used by CAF and FIFA, which require licensed VAR operators in the competitions they organize, as a way of providing referees in the region with this tool, so that they have opportunities to be called to continental and international competitions. video assistant referee (VAR), all member associations can send match referees to receive training on the system. The academy has the potential to become a training center for the whole of Africa and an interesting complement to COSAFA’s educational arsenal. This year’s competition has not yet been drawn and it is not yet known which teams from outside the continent will be invited, but it is known that it will take place in June, and Mozambique is one of the countries that have the right to participate. The Mambas have used this competition to rotate players who play domestically so that they are on an equal level with players who play away from home, thinking about continental competitions, namely the qualifying phase for the African Nations Championships and the World Football Championships. Source:O País
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