Despite last year’s announcement by the Pro League leadership and the specific request from The Liga de Quito will have a video arbitration system (VAR) for your domestic tournament matches this season, the amount of technological equipment is not enough to meet the needs of the clubs of the country, as reported by the management of the university, which will not have a system for the duel against Gualaceo SC, this Friday.

“Match between Liga Deportiva Universitaria and Gualaceo SCunfortunately, you won’t be able to count on the tool video assistant referee (VAR), because the country currently has only two teams to provide this service in concurrent events,” the capital team announced.

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For this date, there are four more games to be played with VAR, whose orders were managed in advance. Clubs such as Aucas, Barcelona SC, Independiente del Valle and Guayaquil City have already made their requests at the start of the tournament, so they have priority to use the VAR system, which “complicates the standardization of this system at the Reina del Cisne (Loja) stadium, which will have VAR for the first time”, justified the League in his statement.

Catholic University vs. Independiente del Valle, on Friday, Libertad FC vs. Aucas and Barcelona SC vs. Mushuc Runa, on Saturday, and Orense SC vs. Guayaquil City, on Sunday, are the matches that will have the VAR system for this day.

Before the service provider, the League thanked “Liga Pro Management”. “But we respect the order of requests before the start of the tournament,” the Merengue board said.

Trust in the judge

For the match between Liga and Gualace, Luis Quiroz will command the arbitration team in Casa Blanca, accompanied by Flavio Nallo and Luis García on the lines and Diego Lara as the fourth referee.

“We believe that the action of the arbitration panel headed by Mr. Luis Quiroz will be framed within the parameters required by the development of the tournament, in line with professional performance and at the level of Ecuadorian football and the fans demand it”, emphasized the leadership of the League.

The university team is ninth in the ranking of the first stage with four added points in three presentations, while Gualaceo is fourth with a total of six units. (D)