VAR in Futsal — Unlikely or Expected Future?

Since its introduction in football a few years ago, Video Assistant Referee, or simply VAR, has been at the centre of the heated discussions of sports fans across the globe. Well, football fans at least. Many are satisfied with this reform of the game because they believe it already reduced the number of mistakes officiated by the referee, while many are upset because they believe it transforms the traditional game arguing that it extends the duration of the match, as well as the process itself not being transparent enough. Both sides agree, though, that this is not the final form of VAR.

We are not that much interested in how VAR affects the football world. However, we are more interested in the discussion — Should VAR be implemented in the beautiful game of futsal? As far as we could research it on the internet — except for one or two sporadic tweets — no one is talking about VAR in futsal. It is very much obvious that VAR is still a new technology and that we have not seen its final shape or form. Despite its usage becoming more and more present, VAR still needs to make its roots in football before being able to “transfer” to another sport such as futsal.

So, in order to facilitate a discussion about introducing VAR in futsal, let us take a look at the pros and cons of such a scenario. Every change is hard in its beginning, especially to the more traditional fans of the sport. But many will argue how we should use the advancement in technology to reform our sports in the same way how technology changed our daily lives and in order to keep our favorite sport from losing popularity to new, emerging sports and audiences. In fact, can we state for a fact that founders of football or futsal would be against this kind of technology in the game if they had it back in the day?

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