{"id":1200964,"date":"2022-09-08T17:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/var-to-be-used-in-ghana-premier-league-season\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:04:05","slug":"var-to-be-used-in-ghana-premier-league-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/var-to-be-used-in-ghana-premier-league-season\/","title":{"rendered":"VAR to be used in Ghana Premier League season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/VAR-1-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"VAR\" title=\"VAR\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Referees Manager of the\u00a0Ghana Football Association [GFA], Alex Kotey, has confirmed that the\u00a0Video Assistant Referees (VAR) could be introduced in the 2023\/24 Ghana Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>The VAR has been widely implemented in world football since its introduction.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kotey, speaking in an interview, explained that the delay in implementing the VAR system has been due to funding and FIFA introducing a different technology for African countries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He added that Ghana is the only country from the WAFU Zone B to have started the VAR project since it was approved for use by FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019m saying that, give and take, by 2023 we should see VAR in Ghana,\u201d Mr Kotey said in an interview with Joy Sports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VAR was used in Ghana for the first time during the 2022 FIFA World Cup playoff first leg game against Nigeria in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ghana Premier League is yet to have a taste of the technology despite the GFA\u2019s insistence that VAR will soon be used in the domestic league.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the FA announced that FIFA had approved the Project Team for the implantation of the VAR in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League will kick off this weekend with betPawa injecting $6 million sponsorship for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CmEWAm2_QgA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (8-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmEWAm2_QgA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAR The Referees Manager of the\u00a0Ghana Football Association [GFA], Alex Kotey, has confirmed that the\u00a0Video Assistant Referees (VAR) could be introduced in the 2023\/24 Ghana Premier League season. The VAR has been widely implemented in world football since its introduction. Mr Kotey, speaking in an interview, explained that the delay in implementing the VAR system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,674,2726,611,526],"class_list":["post-1200964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ghana","tag-league","tag-premier","tag-season","tag-var"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}