The Saudi Arabia Football Federation will help the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to implement the Video Assistant Referee Technology (VAR) in the Ghana Premier League but that will not come any time soon.
According to the communications officer of the GFA , Henry Asante Twum , the Saudi football governing body and the GFA have an agreement that will see the former offer assistance to the latter especially in the area of officiating.
“FIFA has given us (GFA) options to consider and luckily we also have an MOU with the Saudi Arabia Football Association. Improvement in the area of refereeing is one of the agreement we have with them and so the referees body of the GFA and that of the Saudi Arabia FA have held a number of meetings to that effect.” , Henry Asante said on Kumasi-based Fox FM as reported by Ghanasportspage.com.
“They are willing to assist us and help us with the implementation of the VAR technology in terms of giving us technical experts to train our referees and also help us to install it” , the GFA spokesman added.
Meanwhile the technology will not be used in the upcoming league season because the GFA cannot afford the huge cost associated with its implementation.
