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Is VAR going to step-in for corners at World Cup?
Birmingham Mail
|December 06, 2025
FIFA referees’ chief Pierluigi Collina is in favour of using VAR to rule on corner kicks at next summer's World Cup, saying it would be a pity if an “honest mistake” by a referee decided a match.
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It was reported earlier this week that FIFA was keen to extend the VAR protocols to cover corner kicks at the finals in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
For it to happen at this late stage, it would have to be adopted as a trial by the sport's lawmaking body, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) which is holding its annual business meeting next month.
Collina, the chairman of FIFA’s referees committee, said at a briefing in Washington DC on the eve of the World Cup finals draw that he was open to introducing it.
This story is from the December 06, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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