{
  "id": 15122057,
  "title": "Football Goes Digital! Referee Uses Electronic Yellow And Red Cards During Match In Uruguay | Video",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/football-goes-digital-referee-uses-electronic-yellow-and-red-cards",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-17T04:00:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/sports/football-goes-digital-referee-uses-electronic-yellow-and-red-cards-during-match-in-uruguay-video"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Football refereeing could be heading towards a technological transformation, with Uruguay testing electronic yellow and red cards during a Copa Uruguay match between Nacional and Rentistas. Referee Eduardo Varela used a phone-sized electronic device instead of traditional coloured cards during the fixture on Thursday, October 15, as part of an experiment aimed at modernising refereeing and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Uruguay football tests electronic cards in bid to modernise refereeing",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/uruguay-football-tests-electronic-cards-in-bid-to-modernise-refereeing",
        "published": "2026-10-17T00:41:29.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}