The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed that Video Assistant Referees (VAR) will be deployed at the final tournament of the 2019 African Cup of Nation billed to take place in Egypt.
The Deputy General Secretary, Anthony Baffoe who made the development public, said the latest technology in refereeing will be applied from the quarters.
“We’ve taken all measures and tested offline for a backup to the VAR. The referees are concentrating to make everything possible for the system to be implemented successfully. We took the risk and until now it worked very well until we have some difficulties and we assure they will not be repeated.
Vanguard recalls that VAR has previously been used in the CAF Interblubs finals after its successful implementation during the CAF Super Cup in 2018 between Wydad Athletic Club (Morocco) and TP Mazembe (DR Congo) in Casablanca.
