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FIFA defends VAR with statistics despite Women's World Cup controversy

FIFA says 98 per cent of Video Assistant Referee [VAR] reviewed decisions in the Women's World Cup group stage have been correct despite controversy surrounding several calls made during the tournament.

Pierluigi Collina, chairman of FIFA's Referees Committee, believes VAR is an essential tool to help referees make the right decisions and denied it was still being tested by the governing body.

"VAR cannot be blind, cannot ignore. If you have a tool that offers you the possibility to check, you have to check," Collina said during an entertaining 90-minute press conference in which he showed screenshots of VAR decisions on his mobile phone.