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New era in football: The automated offside has been launched!

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The new era in football is a fact! On Thursday (3/2) h FIFA inaugurated the… automated offsidea term first heard from the lips of the head of the development department of the World Confederation, Arsene Wenger. The beginning was made by Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi and specifically in Al Jazeera-Piarewith the VAR to introduce the new method of detecting infringement.

This is a technology that uses automated ball detection and creates 3D models to present footballers. According to FIFA, this will improve the accuracy of the kick point using monitoring data and sensor technology from camera systems, while the skeleton of a player will be modeled to identify which part of the body is in an exposed position. Something that will result to reduce times.

«The VAR has a very positive impact on football so far and we can say that the number of big mistakes has been dramatically reduced. But there are areas where it can be improved and certainly offside is one of them. We know that sometimes the process of controlling a possible offside takes a long time, especially when the offside that needs to be evaluated is a matter of … centimeters. And sometimes the accuracy with the position of the lines may not be at 100%. For these reasons, FIFA is developing a technology that could provide faster and more accurate answers and this is known as a semi-automatic offside“, Said the head of FIFA refereeing for the new technology, Pierluigi Colina.

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Source: Sport-fm

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