Dutch football next season will be the first country in the world to use a video referee. Expected KNVB chairman Michael van Praag, he said Thursday at a meeting of officials from the region Groningen.
This season has been tested with the video referee, but in official matches FIFA prohibits the help yet. The KNVB will shortly submit a proposal to the IFAB, the rule committee of FIFA, to test run in the Dutch league with the system.
"The video referee is somewhere outside the stadium in a car with several good screens," explains Van Praag Friday in the newspaper of the North. "With a headset, he is like the assistant referees, in direct contact with the referee. He can while looking at the images from the referee saying that a violation is yellow or red and whether something is worth it or no penalty. the referee can then base its decision immediately. "

Eventually inevitable really.