Four years after she was supposed to referee her third World Cup, this time around she’s lining up as a video assistant referee
The 46-year-old from Ottawa was slated to work the 2019 tournament in France, her third World Cup as a referee. But a breast cancer diagnosis kept her at home on the eve of the competition.
Despite the cancer diagnosis in May 2019, Chenard wanted to continue in the sport. Her initial goal was to return to the field with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a goal.“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.
“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.As a VAR at the tournament, Chenard has a screen showing the game live plus a screen called the Quad, because it has four pictures.
At the World Cup, Chenard will also be working with an assistant VAR who will help her as well as monitor live play when she is doing a check. There will also be an offside VAR, an assistant referee with expertise in offside decisions. At the World Cup, they will have their own operator so they can look at offside while Chenard and her team look at other plays as needed.
Chenard calls it “a great challenge.” And she says she hopes her years of experience on the field can help the on-field officials.
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