According to “Africa Foot United”- explosive scandal in Algeria: the Var of all the controversies, one of the heroes of which is the globalist referee Mustapha Ghorbal

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The three football games played last Tuesday, a late match (o Akbou -MC Algiers) and the semi -finals of the Algerian Cup (USM Harrach -usm Alger and MC El Bayadh -Cr Belouizdad) continue to arouse controversy through media and social networks in Algeria.

Not due to extra -productive facts (violence in stadiums or others) as it is customary at the end of each season but because of the use by the designated referees of the VAR (Referee Assistance Video) technology. A tool gradually introduced since last year when the FAF had decided to play the matches of the Algerian Cup from the quarter -finals with video assistance. An experience that has been renewed this season in the league with the promise to touch all the stadiums in Ligue 1 and then those of the lower bearings championships.

Unfortunately, the promise seems to come up on a problem of availability of van, these vans equipped with the equipment necessary for the Var. The Algerian Football Federation had launched an international opinion last summer for the acquisition of this tool after having previously relied on a European box for the coverage of last year’s meetings and those at the start of this season. A start to the championship that has seen a number of games competing without this technology paving the way for criticism of clubs and observers.

Last January, the FAF announced the acquisition of 4 new trucks and a fixed station which will be used to form the referees and VAR staff. This without specifying what was the fate reserved for the rented stations to the foreign company.

However, despite these acquisitions, the Var coverage problem persisted and other championship meetings will be played without the Var. The arbitration errors being commonplace, the voices rose to denounce the breach of the promise made at the start of the season. The meeting between CS Constantine and NC Magra marked by Mr. Bekouassa’s decision to cancel a goal at the Cirta club by referring to mobile phone images which showed the net offside position of the Nigerian striker of the CSC raised an outcry and the international referee had to pay dearly this decision by being dismissed until the end of the season and postponed to the summer.

Last Tuesday, another international referee, the globalist Mustapha Ghorbal, who underwent the fires of criticism following his office deemed catastrophic on the occasion of the delay meeting O Akbou- McA. The Algerian club which conceded its second defeat of the season wrote to the football bodies by denouncing the bias of the referee of the Oran League who, according to MC Algiers, influenced the outcome of the match depriving Khaled Benyahia team of a penalty and a goal and granting the Soummam formation a questionable penalty without forgetting the expulsion of Captain Ayoub Abdellai.

According to various media, the international referee who was retained by FIFA to officer at the Club World Cup would have been suspended until the end of the season. What neither the FAF nor any football structure has confirmed or denied.

Meanwhile, another match, that in Oran between MC El Bayadh and CR Belouizdad on behalf of the semi-finals of the Algerian Cup, experienced Mr. Aouina’s refereeing errors without the Var, however in place, not reported that the equipment is out of service. Another “scandal” denounced by the club of El Bayadh which challenged the FAF on the question in order, he thinks, to recover its rights.

In Algiers, in the Harrach- usm Algiers derby counting for the semi-finals of the Algerian Cup, the Var indeed worked. However, the harrachis say they are scandalized by the “prescription” use of technology. In the sense that the decisions taken by the referee Dehar and his Var assistants are all favorable to the USM Algiers. The club of the ex-Maison-Carrée is based in particular on the canceled red card of the central defender of the USMA Alilet and the penalty granted and then canceled to the Harrachie team, without forgetting the penalty granted to the USM Algiers which was declared after a long wait.

These events that mark the start of club disputes promise a difficult end of the season for referees and football bodies. While the championship will play this weekend the 23rd day this weekend, with high-risk and major challenges, the question of using the Var will remain a large enigma. This week, only three matches (USB -MCA, USMA -JSK and ESS -MCO) will be covered by the Var, the other 4, including a certain Crb -ESM, will not be. What arouse new waves of criticism and suspicion.