The Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced on Thursday that FIFA has authorised a project team from the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to introduce Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the country's top flight.
The development team, which includes FA General Secretary Prosper Harrison Addo, six other Ghanaians, and Confederation of African Football (CAF) instructors Eddy Mallet, Jerome Damon, and Desire Doue, will meet to prepare the mechanisms for complete VAR introduction in the 2022/2023 league season.
The VAR is a technology used in football that intervenes in referee rulings and calls for on-field reviews by using video clips and a microphone to communicate.
It is used in major domestic competitions in Europe, and African countries such as Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa are among the few that have implemented VAR in their domestic leagues.
According to project leader retired referee Alex Kotey VAR comes in three models, that is in structure, container, and the mobile van and the best to be used in the country will be the VAR mobile van.
“The VAR is in three models – VAR in a structure, VAR in a container, and VAR in a mobile van. I’ll be bias and go for the van, and that is because it is movable,” he told GFA news.
“Anywhere StarTimes covers a match, the VAR will be there to make their work very simple,” Kotey, the retired referee said in explaining his preference,"
“Fifa is ready to support this course in all Football Associations,"
“We only need to show commitment and the willingness to accept the VAR into our football.”, he concluded.