Liga Santander 2018-19: Cruyff already predicted … in 2002! that the VAR was going to bring problems
Santander League 2018-19He analyzed it in his book 'I like soccer'
Cruyff, a visionary.He changed the football on the turf during his time as a player and revolutionized him from the bench in his career as a coach. But thepredictions of Johan, who understood this sport like few, go further. And now they are again topical.The use of the VAR in Primera this season is causing controversy.
Without going further,the last day when the Athletic one has requested formal explanations to the Arbitral Technical Committeedemanding that he clarify these criteria after Casemiro's hand in the derby, afteranother two at Eibar-Sevilla and Villarreal-Valladolid were sanctioned with a penalty.
Situations of the alreadyCruyff spoke in his book 'I like football' in 2002.The Dutchman wrote: "If football is a continuous sport,you can not place a camera and, in a conflicting play, ask that nobody moves, meet in the band, see the images, deliberate, make a decision and then say: 'Come, now, we can continue', asIt occurs in some US sports. Can not be. This makes no sense", he wrote.
"I know there are a lot of people who say that that would be the fairest thingand I do not know what else. But, personally, I think that, deep down,Soccer is very fair.Depending on what you put in, you will get one or another thing. If you put less, you will get less.Luck is not the only decisive factor.The law of compensation in sport is the clearest. There is no cheating. So, what are so many problems? "He continued.
