{"id":3041,"date":"2022-01-13T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:22:03","slug":"milovan-rajevac-breaks-silence-on-officiating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2022\/01\/13\/milovan-rajevac-breaks-silence-on-officiating\/","title":{"rendered":"Milovan Rajevac Breaks Silence on Officiating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Milovan-Rajevac-133x75.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ghana&#8217;s Serbian tactician, Milovan Rajevac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Satish Sekar in Yaound\u00e9 \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 13<sup>th<\/sup> 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Officiating Controversies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the recent controversies over officiating in World Cup Qualifiers and yesterday\u2019s travesty in Limb\u00e9 Ghana\u2019s mild-mannered Serbian coach Milovan Rajevac has opened on the hot topic of officiating \u2013 a subject he is known for steering clear of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Cup Qualifying controversies led to CAF deciding to have VAR available throughout the Africa Cup of Nations. Serbian tactician Milovan Rajevac finally expressed his opinion on the hot topic after a refereeing catastrophe saw Janny Sikazwe end the match between Mali and Tunisia early twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rajevac Opens Up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to my question on the officiating and VAR controversies, Rajevac told a pre-match press conference, \u201cIt\u2019s not my style to comment about officiating. I usually don\u2019t do that, but there are a lot of controversy, and the whole world is talking about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven when we looked at our match against Morocco, at the end of the first half, it was maybe a penalty for ourselves, but VAR didn\u2019t bother to check and there were many questionable decisions, especially what happened yesterday, so I think this is becoming an issue and I hope in the next days of the competition the officiating will be less controversial and more fair for everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI congratulated the referees after the match. They can make mistakes. They are humans but now we have VAR, so the number of mistakes should be less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHopefully it will be less controversy in the coming matches of the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajevac had more to add. He believed that Andr\u00e9 Ayew had a strong penalty shout at the end of the first half, but it was waved away by the referee, Joshua Bondo. It was not checked by VAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVAR Is supposed to help referees to have less mistakes so it should be used smartly and we hope it will improve the quality of the game and bring more fairness in the match, so hopefully it should be ok and these mistakes shouldn\u2019t happen so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar in Yaound\u00e9 \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 13th 2022) Officiating Controversies After the recent controversies over officiating in World Cup Qualifiers and yesterday\u2019s travesty<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[82,83,86,84,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}