The video assistant referees (VAR) for decision supporting in soccer match

In today’s digital age the technological advances have further pushed the need for knowledge management to the forefront, and XXI century organisations are facing and exploiting the data “explosion”, by navigating into an ocean of information coming from different sources, sites and stakeholders (Gavrilova et al., 2017). Indeed, the proliferation of data and the development of advanced technologies are transforming the way organisations manage, integrate and deploy their competences, take strategic decisions, operate their businesses models, drive value creation mechanisms to meet diversified stakeholders’ wants and needs. Nowadays, people are getting more and more involved in adopting new technologies, which provides them with new ways to communicate, investigate and support decisions. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has gone through innovations and every aspect in every day’s life of people around the world has changed as a coincidence to the changes of society. The required harmonization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with operational decision-making demands new alignment software techniques. The subject of using modern technologies as a support to decisions becomes an interesting topic for a large number of researchers in organization studies. Decision Supports Systems (DSS) are computer-based systems which are characterized as interactive systems, used to help decision makers to utilize data and models to solve problems and support activities linked to their decision making process by enhancing it (Ali, et.al, 2017). Until now most of DSS are developed and implemented for business sector depending on the company/organization perspectives, still there are few done within the area of sport. With those premises, the objective of this paper is to assess the current state of art implementation of new technologies - in the specific the Video Assistant Referees (VAR) - and the impact that it has in supporting the referees in their decision making process during soccer matches. The VAR team is located in a centralised video operation room. The VAR team can access to all relevant broadcast cameras and two dedicated offside cameras. The VAR does not take any decisions, but it supports the referee in the decision-making process and the final decision can only be taken by the referee. In this paper, we propose a review of literature, starting with the online database through specific keywords in order to assume the current state of analysis. The contribution of the document will be to develop a greater awareness of the contribution of the VAR in supporting sport decisions.