Carol Anne Chenard is back at the FIFA Women\u0027s World Cup, a life moment truly worth celebrating.
“And I just wasn’t really able to get back to a place where I would be comfortable getting back on the field for the timeline for the 2020 Olympics.”But without a clear picture of her health, Chenard elected to call it quits as an on-field official in October 2020. At the time, she was just the fourth Canadian to serve 15 or more years on the FIFA list of referees and assistant referees.
“I wasn’t quite ready to step totally away from the field yet.” she said. “And VAR provided me the opportunity to stay not on the field but close enough to the field. The way my refereeing career ended obviously wasn’t how I envisioned it. That happens to many people. Injuries happen, that kind of thing.”In addition to the 2011 and 2015 Women’s World Cups, she also officiated at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics , the 2017 FIFA U-17 Men’s World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
All of the World Cup officials will be based out of Sydney, which will be Chenard’s home for the entire tournament given the video match officials all work out of a centralized location there. Other match officials will travel to their matches.“We train every day. We have classroom sessions. We watch matches,” she said.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Chenard says video match officials essentially check everything, so on-field officials don’t routinely have to ask for a review. But there is plenty of communication with referees explaining their decision, passing on if they are not sure of what they saw or offering up what players say happened.Article content
In Major League Soccer, Chenard works only with an assistant VAR and an operator. The MLS video match officials have worked out of Atlanta for the last two years, making for some busy weekends for Chenard, whose day job is as director in the Office of Controlled Substances at Health Canada.
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