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Pro soccer's first video-replay assisted penalty call came on Hilario Grajeda's watch, because of course it did

The New York Red Bulls II are leading professional soccer toward its future, hosting the first live tests of the "Video Assistant Referee" over the last five home games of their USL regular season.

The first game - played last week - to feature VAR went pretty well from the perspective of those trialing the integration of video replays into soccer refereeing. The second match was played on August 19 - NYRB II's home game against Louisville City FC - and it too seemed to bring further success for the VAR experiment.