In August 2022 the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) announced the implementation VAR system (video support for the referee) in the league 1 for 2023. This implementation is part of a series of changes as part of a restructuring of national football. Work on deploying the VAR began last Monday, March 13, with the training of the Peruvian referees, who received three weeks of theoretical instruction from FIFA instructor Óscar Julián Ruiz and chief VAR instructor Víctor Hugo Carrillo the support of the Arbitration Division of CONAR (National Commission of Arbitrators).
Now, CONAR FPF, the governing body of Peru’s arbitration system, has published a photo showing the national judge via its social networks Joel Alarcón simulating in front of a VAR screen installed on a pitchas if it were a real situation when the main referee comes closer to review a game on the device.
As part of the next phase of training, the VAR referees practiced on a pitch in April using this video arbitration system with some mock plays and real situations whether it was goals, offsides, penalties and more.
Photo: Capture CONAR FPF/Instagram
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It was also agreed that in the third stage, a mini-championship would be held with youth teams under 18 in order to be able to implement this technology in real games and to be able to complete the certification process by FIFA.
Meeting between league authorities, CONAR and club representatives
Apart from the phases described by the FPF, On April 26th, the first meeting between the authorities of the Professional Soccer League, CONAR, and the 19 Peruvian clubs in League 1 took place. with the aim of explaining the entire implementation process of the VAR system. There are a total of 36 referees in training, 24 main referees and 12 assistants.
At this meeting, the infrastructure guidelines that stadiums must have in order to comply with this video arbitration system were detailed and it was reported that clubs will receive visits from the 1st League representatives this month of May to define all this. Besides, it was revealed The next step will be the training of technical commanders and football players, and a training process for journalists is also planned.
Despite all this, the FPF does not yet indicate whether this system can be put into operation in the final phase of the championship, i.e. in the opening tournament, or for the following year.