Utilizing video assistant referee checks to rule on corners is not going to maintain up matches, says Fifa’s head of referees Pierluigi Collina.

Home leagues have rejected the concept of bringing in VAR to evaluate the awarding of corners.

The Fifa proposal was knocked again at an October assembly of the Worldwide Soccer Affiliation Board (Ifab) – which determines the legal guidelines of the sport.

Nonetheless, world soccer’s governing physique plans to trial the concept on the 2026 World Cup finals within the USA, Mexico and Canada.

“The principle standards isn’t any delay. With corners, there’s a physiological delay as a result of when a nook is given, usually you wait till the 2 centre-backs come up,” Collina mentioned at a briefing in Washington DC on Thursday when requested about potential delays.

“It usually takes 10-15 seconds to get the attackers prepared. In these 10-15 seconds, if the nook kick is wrongly given, all people has the proof that the beginning of play is fallacious and to me, it is obscure if they’ve the likelihood to see that [the decision is wrong].

“Why do we’ve to cover our heads beneath the sand and hope that nothing occurs on the nook kick which is taken?”

Soccer Affiliation chief govt Mark Bullingham, who sits on the Ifab board, has beforehand advised BBC Sport he’s towards the change.

Collina cited the necessity to make appropriate selections as the principle motive for utilizing VAR on corners.

“I feel we should always all have as the target to make appropriate selections on the sphere of play,” the previous Italian referee mentioned.

“It might be a pity if the results of a contest is set not by what the gamers do on the sphere of play, however by an trustworthy mistake made by the decision-maker.

“That is what satisfied us 13, 14 years in the past to begin pondering methods to assist referees [with technology]. So if we are able to get this, to me, it is optimistic.

“We talk about and we’ll see what would be the end result as a result of I feel the target could be price it.”

The measures shall be mentioned additional on the subsequent Ifab assembly in January.

At an October assembly, Ifab agreed that VAR might be expanded to cowl incorrectly proven second yellow playing cards that result in a crimson.