FIFA tests the automated offside in football!

Technology has penetrated football for good and in various ways, something that has helped the sport to improve and become fairer. WHERE and his goal line technology specifically).

Studies and proposals are constantly made, with FIFA to prepare to add another style to football. This is the automated offside, which will essentially replace the assistant referees and is expected to be tested for the first time, following the suggestion of the Pierre Luigi Colina, in the FIFA Arab Cup 2021.

“Technology is very important and useful both in the preparation before the race and in the decision-making process during the races”, said o Kolina initially and continued: “In an offside case, the decision is made after analyzing not only the position of the players but also their involvement in the movement. “Technology can draw a line, but the evaluation of intervention in the game or with an opponent remains in the hands of the referee.”

One of the goals of the vision 2020/23 of its president FIFA, Gianni Infantino, is to leverage technology in football to meet the needs of the game.

The Director of Technology and Innovation at FIFA, Johannes Holzmeler, spoke in detail about the new… step that football wants to take through automated offside: “We will have a camera installed under the roof of each stadium. The data will be sent to the rooms where the referees will be, with the frozen snapshot at the time of the kick and of the players involved with the appropriate lines that indicate if the attacker is exposed. The player then has the opportunity to show it to the VAR immediately. In the FIFA Arab Cup the VAR assistant will be able to immediately validate and confirm the information in each offside phase that is controlled “, concluded.

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