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FIFA: 'Technical outage' led to VAR controversy

Sun, Jun 14, 3:23 PM UTC

FIFA have confirmed that a "technical outage" meant that VAR's semi-automated offside technology was not able to be used for the controversial call that led to Switzerland's opening goal against Qatar on Saturday.

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