In what was the first-ever live trial of the technology in a FIFA competition, Kassai awarded a crucial penalty for Japan’s Kashima Antlers during their FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016 semi-final win over South American club champions Atletico Nacional of Colombia in Osaka, Japan.

“VAR is a useful technology as it enables us, referees, not to make big blunders.

Of course, there will still remain situations which can be judged in different ways but cases when something is seen by all in the stadium but the referee will become a thing of the past,” he told Kossuth Radio.

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