VAR/Officiating and it's performance especially at the 2026 world cup

[Franctoshi]

Those that are in charge of VAR called VAR referees are they not human? And they're not saint so
You can not totally avoid human errors, sometimes those referee can make mistakes in their decision, secondly they also have their personal interests and you can totally avoid that and decide to favour a particular side with decision

[Sandra_hakeem]

Moreover this is one of the worst scenarios ever for a gambler. Even if you are right, they can change the decision on video pure nightmare no more.
It's not matter to choose the right things but what would be later confirmed too.

That's when they begin to tilt every single camera angle, in all directions, by so doing confuse the actual scenario with their (sometimes) fake imaginary antecedence. How many offsides have they ruled as goals and how many pure goals have they ruled as offsides with the same trick? Unfortunately, the VAR has the final say.

My opinion is that VAR has brought more bad than good to football - because firstly, it breaks the rhythm of the game, often for more than 5 minutes - and secondly, it is used selectively, not objectively in every controversial situation. This means that they directly affect the final result of the match.

It's as simple as that. They always have their way of convincing confusing the public to believe their actions.

VAR would be fair if each team had the right to request a certain number of checks in each match, and the way it is being done now casts doubt on the fairness of the system.

In that case, you've successfully disrupted the cycle of capitalism.

[EluguHcman]

So after watching it, I shook my head to wonder if VAR is probably fair to teams, players and gamblers as it were with casinos preaching probably fair to gamers.

What do you think and what is your review about 2026 world cup VAR.

The world cup was such a game that a lot of money was spent by the every countrys that qualified and due to the high interests of the countries, I doubt if the tournaments was really that easy to be manipulated by the officiating staffs.
Do you think the VAR could afford taking the risk to be biased with a team and think if he is caught he won't be prosecuted for cheating?

And even if some of us here would agree with you that the VAR was not sincere, how do you think we can justify the events of those goals to be provably fair when we have different teams we fans and so on everyone would protect their interests.
Casinos provably fair has nothing to do with games outcomes in the sport games rather they are only protecting their own reputation that bookies are fair.

[Curious T]

I don't know what your point of making this post is, but all the offside calls for these goals were actually offside. I watched 4 out of 5 of those matches, and all the calls are correct. The fact that this didn't go your way doesn't mean it was the wrong call. The Ronaldo, Yamal, Taremi, and Cancelo goals were all offside goals. VAR was right. As for the disallowed Ziko goal against Argentina, we can all clearly see the foul on Martinez. The argument was that it has been too long, but it is not the first time VAR has been involved in such an incident, and there was no break in play from when the foul happened to when the goal was scored. There were calls in the world cup that were questionable, but these ones are not one of them. Also, the officiating in the world cup was not as bad as people make it seem.

[r_victory]

I know it can prevent injustices or errors that harm teams, and that's valid, but I also believe that's what the referee is there for. Look at the case of Croatia's disallowed goal because the ball grazed a player's hair, which ended the chance of a draw they were desperately seeking (and needed). Did it prevent an error? Yes, but it eliminated the essence of the human element, which is what makes football exciting. Furthermore, it takes away the dynamism of matches, having to stop every time a play is questionable. For me, the excessive use of technology is harmful and should have limitations on its use.

[Joeboy]

Are you sure Ziko goal was not counted as goal?

Are you sure Cancelo goal also was not later counted as goal?

Taremi, Ronaldo and Yamal goals are all offsides and not goals, so the way they are disallowed is better.

It is important to know that there can be some mistakes in football. The mistakes are significantly less these time than the old time.

Zico goal wasn't counted due to the foul that was done to the Argentinian player..
Cancelo goal was cancelled, it didn't stand.. That one was very much justifiable since cancelo was actually in an offside position... Infact he was coming from an offside position before he netted the goal with the bicycle kick...
Truly we could all testify that the world cup was manipulated to favour some team against the others, and that is part of the reason why FIFA president is facing serious criticism...But apart from Zico goal which I feel shouldn't have been disallowed, the four other disallowed goals in the video that the OP shared were all actually offside and there was no mistake there..

[Felicity_Tide]

So after watching it, I shook my head to wonder if VAR is probably fair to teams, players and gamblers as it were with casinos preaching probably fair to gamers.

What do you think and what is your review about 2026 world cup VAR.

I don't even know where to start from because this discussion is actually based on three different issues... One is the offside technology, second is the VAR itself, and third is the camera angle. From the 5 separete clips, 4 were actually based on offsides why the last(Ziko) was a VAR intervention on a foul that happened prior to a goal been scored. There was a foul on a player that eventually led to a goal, and modern football allows VAR to review and cancel the goal been scored. And as for the others, only 3 were clear offsides, but I'm not quite sure if camera angle came into play for the Yamal's case because he looked very much onside. As for Cancelo, he received the ball from João Neves from an offside position. CR7 was very clear. Taremi's case was quite close, but camera angle was obviously a confusing factor.

Now, for those who probably don't know what the 'camera angle factor' is, it's not that difficult. It's just a positioning of on field cameras that makes viewers to see the field from a slant position rather than a plain horizontal position. It was mostly used in the EPL before the semi automated offside tech was introduced sometime last year. And before then, this camera angle factor has cost teams a lot especially in situations where two players are only separated by a margin. But that aside, I think the only competition with good referees and technology is UEFA. Laliga uses a good technology_{(from Microsoft I think)}, but I'm not sure of their referees. And mind you, VAR or any of these technologies are not the problem. The problem are those who make judgment from what's been displayed.

[Miles2006]

VAR is made up of a team of officials focusing on making final decision, asking if decisions made by VAR can be wrong absolutely yes. From the video clip the goals disallowed was right except the last goal by Ziko, I don’t seem to understand the foul play and for real most of the decision made can be annoying.
VAR has been from the start, having thought if VAR is not honest enough is valid but, there’s no argument without stating fact probably a clear evidence because all 5 disallowed goals is not convincing enough.

[Cryptohygenic]

VAR is just an excuse to avoid to take such decisions IMHO, they just delegate the issue.
Moreover this is one of the worst scenarios ever for a gambler. Even if you are right, they can change the decision on video pure nightmare no more.
It's not matter to choose the right things but what would be later confirmed too.

That is a very perfect response in this case. The discussion might seem interesting to deliberate as we might conclude that the VAR is not provably fair but the truth remains that we are as gamblers will always want to find excuse when we losses our bets.
I am sure those who the voided goals as Op listed may favor in their bets will sure argue against those the game did not favour. Maybe Op was also a victim otherwise, it is like a medicine after death to be arguing about this because there is not going to be any opportunity to correct any of the wrong. Perhaps VAR will always have the final say and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
Maybe we can just such discussion for fun and not to take to heart of wasting our energies arguing what we can not even defend our own opinion.

[Davidvictorson]

I stumbled on a YouTube video of the world cup titled: Top 5 disallowed goals world cup 2026

So after watching it, I shook my head to wonder if VAR is probably fair to teams, players and gamblers as it were with casinos preaching probably fair to gamers.

What do you think and what is your review about 2026 world cup VAR.

Those were the goals of:

1. Ziko
2. Cancelo
3. Taremi
4. Ronaldo
5. Yamal

https://youtube.com/shorts/dqIwoYn_Gvo?si=_oj65A_pVq0Picvg

True but I would say that VAR is still a work in progress. It will keep on improving with more data that it’s been trained on.
There were even cases where the refs had to disagree with the VAR which was interesting. It didn’t happen in this World Cup but the AFCON.

[ArabBTC]

The VAR is a technology that was initiated to assist the referee but however, it is not perfect or impeccable because they are still human that reviews those situations. It is true that some of the goals that were disallowed by VAR was supposed to be pure goals but sentiment aside, it is not easy for them too because before a goal is disallowed, it is always reviewed multiple times. We are just viewers who is watching the match on screen, maybe if you are actually in the stadium to view those matches live, you might agree with the decision of the VAR. SInce the introduction of the VAR technology, poor officiating has reduced in football so whichever it is, we should dual the difference between when it wasn't introduced and after the introduction then see that a lot of things has changed.

I don’t think that their is any difference wether you are watching from a screen or from the stadium, a rule is suppose to be a rule, if there are criterial used by VAR for cancelling a goal it should remain that way regardless of the match or were we are watching from, that being said i feel VAR has its positive and negative sides, it is considered good if it favors one’s team, VAR helps assist the referee make his decisions but mind you it is still operated by humans hence those errors associated with viewing and human interest is still there. One thing i don’t like about VAR is that it slows down the tempo of matches, halting the celebration of both players and fans after a goal to review the goal actually lowers the tempo and fun of the match especially when the final decision after the VAR review doesn’t favor ones team. Some of those bias from goals etc were part of what made football more interesting in the past but ever since this new pattern of VAR reviews i feel like the tempo of soccer is currently slowed down without a direct advantage because at the tail end whatever conclusion that comes from VAR is still subject to the overall decision of referee, so why slow down the entire tempo of the match when it is still a human (referee) that will still give the final decision.

[danadc]

True but I would say that VAR is still a work in progress. It will keep on improving with more data that it’s been trained on.
There were even cases where the refs had to disagree with the VAR which was interesting. It didn’t happen in this World Cup but the AFCON.

I've seen that technology advances and doesn't leave any room for error, but humans find ways to make mistakes, both intentionally and unintentionally. This happens in football because it lends itself to corruption.

I would love for VAR to be assisted by an AI agent. With that, they wouldn't have to debate any events; the AI ​​would decide and send the verdict to the referee. That would directly address the root of VAR corruption.

[Joy- maker]

Well, I didn't really follow the FIFA world cup tournament due work, but from the information I got online Cristiano Ronaldo's goal was clearly offside, as for lamine yamal's it was also offside because I watched the match.  Regarding the remaining players I don't have anything to say because I didn't get any information on why their goals were disallowed.  As for VAR, they are probably fair, but they sometimes make questionable decisions.

[Nathrixxx]

I stumbled on a YouTube video of the World Cup titled: Top 5 disallowed goals World Cup 2026

Many have been arguing about the way they just concluded FIFA world Cup goals this year and how things went berserk over the decision from some of their referees, which I believe that with the number of attacks we have been seeing against the VAR and the reaction of the referees towards the final judgment they issue, everything triggers more calmness and fairness next time because they will know that people will definitely kick against any wrong decision made similar to this year world cup.

[Ryu_Ar1]

Are you sure Ziko goal was not counted as goal?

This goal was disallowed and this triggered a loud debate between Argentina and Egypt at that time because although it was certainly not a goal (when the match took place) but there was some speculation that considered this goal legitimate even some referee statements said the same thing but the decision could not be changed and Egypt had to be eliminated from the World Cup at that time.

Regarding the VAR issue for me it will be an advantage because to see the mistakes made by the referee but in some moments sometimes it is also a little less advantageous because in some moments, especially for now there are always allegations about VAR manipulation that occur especially when there are important matches and one of them when the Argentina match against Egypt, especially for Ziko's goal which was disallowed.

[uneng]

There were many wrong judgements from referees on this world cup, but I don't think they were decisive or determining for the final outcome of the championship or of each matches. I remember there was a nulled goal from Vini Jr. against Scotland, which was clearly legit, but it didn't change the result at all. And there was also that foul commited by Messi against Saudi Arabia which was simply ignored, but it wouldn't change the result too.

The worst one, in my opinion, was the nulled goal in the match between Egypt and Argentina, where the referee returned to a foul commited a long time before the goal in order to justify its revocation. Then we could argue, maybe, Argentina would have had a harder time if Egypt had scored that goal. In every cases, it doesn't erase the fact Argentina played with a lot of effort until the last second to win that game, and they truly deserved it that day.

[Agbamoni]

Respect the decision of VAR. They may not always be right, but they have managed to solve controversial calls made by the referee on the pitch.

In as much as many won't agree with some decisions made by VAR, the technology has come in handy. I am rooting for the VAR refereeing to continue, because football has been a lot better since it was introduced.

The wrong calls made by VAR wouldn't have changed who won the World Cup. Spain was obviously the best team in the 2026 World Cup. This agenda is laughable.

[MRY]

There were many wrong judgements from referees on this world cup, but I don't think they were decisive or determining for the final outcome of the championship or of each matches. I remember there was a nulled goal from Vini Jr. against Scotland, which was clearly legit, but it didn't change the result at all. And there was also that foul commited by Messi against Saudi Arabia which was simply ignored, but it wouldn't change the result too.

The worst one, in my opinion, was the nulled goal in the match between Egypt and Argentina, where the referee returned to a foul commited a long time before the goal in order to justify its revocation. Then we could argue, maybe, Argentina would have had a harder time if Egypt had scored that goal. In every cases, it doesn't erase the fact Argentina played with a lot of effort until the last second to win that game, and they truly deserved it that day.

Admittedly, the flaws of referee decisions are an intrinsic component of the storyline of big football tournaments. Whether the goals are to be disallowed or not is always controversial issue but the fighting spirit of a team is always the determiner of the ultimate outcome.

The fighting spirit of Argentina showed that they were psychologically ready to fight with a lot of pressure. This was a well earned victory, five years of virtue paid off by this entire squad through to the last minute, as they refuted all the odds against them in the face of the dynamic nature of game refereeing decisions.

[tread93]

The 2026 world cup exposed the weakness of the VAR system that many people thought was coming to solve the problem of wrong officiating. Without watching the video collection of some of the errors made by the VAR, I already knew some of those incidence because I watch most of the matches. Some of these incidence contributed to the call for the change of leadership of FIFA over poor officiating. Some persons are even suggesting that some of those decisions were due to match fixing but I don't want to go with that idea.

Well it wold be a shame if it was match fixing I know this was a spectacle with one of the last games I can’t remember which when they celebratory colors were for the other team but the latter team won. Things like that. This technology can always be tampered with but humans generally once they make the call can not be swayed or manipulated I such a way on live TV. Back in the day the refs used to get paid off in order to fix the results of a game and now I’m sure its a lot harder, or maybe even easier to do if you’re a good hacker lmao

[Hispo]

Several decisions by VAR in this year's world cup have been terrible. The German team alone has been robbed several teams thanks to outrageous decisions that nobody could explain or understand.

I mean if those things happen over and over again why do we even use/need this "technology". Just go back to how the game was before. All these delays to check some nonsense that happened 1 minute before the goal are ridiculous. Football is getting destroyed by this in my opinion. Nobody ever asked for this I bet.

I have already seen several people on the internet and also in real life, mentioning this last world cup exposed who football is being alledgelly destroyed by corruption and money at the same time.
They pointed out at this VAR system as an example of things which are obviously wrong and perhaps purposely bad implemented in order to tilt matches in favor of one of the teams.

I have mixed opinions about it, I believe FIFA needs more transparency. Otherwise, people will lose their faith on that organization and on the fairness of it's matches.