Officially. It became a famous UPL match in which VAR will be used for the first time

29.01.2020 21:30

In December, the Executive Board of the Ukrainian Football Association created a committee to determine the matches of the Ukrainian Premier League on which the VAR system will be involved.

This committee was included UAF First Vice President Oleg Protasov, UAF Arbitrators Committee Chairman Luciano Luci and UPL Chief Executive Officer Eugene Wild.

After "Dynamo" and "Vorskla" agreed that their meeting in the 19th round will take place not on February 23, as originally planned, but on the 22nd, we can say that this match will be the first, historic UPL match, which will use the VAR system, - said Oleg Protasov in a comment to the official website of the UAF. - As you know, the Ukrainian Football Association has fully funded the introduction of the VAR system in Ukraine, but so far we have the opportunity to use it only in one match per game day. By the way, on the 23rd VAR will be involved in the Shakhtar-Desna match. In any case, we can say that the initiative of UAF President Andriy Pavelko to implement VAR has been implemented, Ukrainian football is keeping pace with the times. "

Oleg also commented changes to the internal championship game dates: “I want to thank the UPL clubs for supporting the request of the coaching staff of the national team of Ukraine to adjust the calendar of the championship. At the same time, I was surprised by the indignation of some coaches and officials in this regard. We went to the Euro, the team for the first time in its history did not lose a single match in a year. Didn't the coaching staff of Andriy Shevchenko deserve to have his wishes listened to? In addition, the transfer of matches in the interests of the national team or individual clubs playing in the European Cups - not such an extraordinary event for our championship. More recently, this has become commonplace. And another interesting point. As you know, the national team of Ukraine will take part in the final tournament for the fourth time, and in previous years, the championship of Ukraine ended even earlier than now. In 2006, the last matches of the championship were played on May 14, in 2012 - on May 10, in 2016 - on May 15. And if then it was considered quite normal, now for some reason they tried to accuse us of fraud.

Let's do our best so that the coaching staff of the national team has everything necessary to implement the program of preparation for Euro 2020, and we wish our team a successful performance at the European Championship! "