The Use of Video Technologies in Refereeing Football and Other Sports. ISBN 9781138312043 from Practitioner Books

For a long time, various different lobbying sectors have claimed that the use of video technology is an effective aid in decision-making. Now the IFAB has taken a historic step in the approval of experiments on the use of video to provide support to football refereeing. The Use of Video Technologies in Refereeing Football and Other Sports analyses the capacity of audio-visual technology from different perspectives to help understand the best implementation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system in football and, more generally, in other sports. This book addresses in-depth interdisciplinary viewpoints on the need and the opportunity of the implementation procedures regarding how to use it, considering that it could lead to very important changes. The book goes on to examine various approaches to the most interesting topics for players, amateurs, coaches, referees and referees coaches. Offering viewpoints from both academics and professionals, this new volume addresses the VAR issue in a multidisciplinary way, analysing the implications of video replay application in football from the perspective of players, coaches, television professionals, referees, amateurs, sports lawyers, media and educators.

Part 1: The Need for Video Assisted in Football 1. Between Scepticism and the longed-awaited quest for "Football Justice" 2. The Contribution of VARs to Fairness in Sport Part 2: Video Broadcasting Limitations 3. Is it the same for the TV Screen and for the VAR? Planning the Use of Cameras and Replays to Solve the Controversy 4. The Interaction Between Audio and the Video Assistant Referee in Football 5. Replays in Football: A Technical Resource that Serves as a Narrative and Post-Refereeing System Part 3: Video Assisted Officiating in Other Sports 6. Instant Replays in The Spanish Basketball League: ACB 7. Instant Replay System in the National Basketball Association 8. Video Technology for refereeing in other sports: Tennis and Rugby 9. Instant Replay in the National Football League Part 4: Experiments with Video Assistant Referees 10. The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) Protocol 11. VAR Experiments in International Matches 12. VAR experiments in the Bundesliga 13. VAR experiments in the Italian SERIE A League 14. VAR in the Major League Soccer (MLS) 15. How Twitter has portrayed the VAR Part 5: New Challenges in the Refereeing Performance 16. Educating International Football Referees: The importance of Uniformity 17. Didactic Teaching Strategies for the VAR. An Approach to Gamification and 21st-century Skills 18. Psychological response of the referee to the introduction of VAR

Author(s)	Edited by Manuel Armenteros, Anto J. Benitez, Miguel Betancor.
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN	9781138312043
Format	Hardback
Pages	392
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	2 Dec 2019
Availability	Available

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