Stromp Group President Criticizes Benfica Coach Roger Schmidt for Comments on VAR in Football

The president of the Stromp group, Tito Arantes Fontes, criticized Benfica and in particular the coach of the eagles, Roger Schmidt, who on April 19, after the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, against Inter, said that VAR in football «could end» (see associated news).

«And it is also good that, from now on, it is known that we also do not have to put up with the now “incensed” German and his cronies defending the extinction of VAR! Irra, it’s too much! VAR is here to stay and must, indeed, be subject to improvements, both in terms of the clauses of the famous “protocol” that governs it, and in terms of the quality and impartiality of the referees who handle it! In this sense, it is imperative to move towards the dissemination of the audio conversations held within the VAR between the referee and his team! And those who say the opposite… well, there’s really no way to escape, it’s because they’re afraid of the sporting truth», reads in the opinion article by Tito Arantes Fontes in the club’s newspaper, published this Thursday.