By GRAHAM DUNBAR – AP Sports Editor
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA will introduce a new generation of offside calls at qatar’s World Cup this year, using a member-tracking camera system.
FIFA said on Friday it was in a position to launch the semi-automatic offside generation (SAOT) that uses multiple cameras to track players’ movements, as well as a sensor on the ball, and will temporarily display 3D photographs on stadium screens during the tournament. so that attendance enthusiasts perceive the referee’s call.
This is the third consecutive World Cup that FIFA has brought a new generation of referees.
Goal generation in position for the 2014 tournament in Brazil after an infamous refereeing error in 2010. In 2018, a video review to help referees pass judgment on game-changing incidents in Russia.
The new offside formula promises faster and more accurate decisions than those made lately with the video assistant referee (VAR) formula, even though the 2018 World Cup has avoided major mistakes during offside calls.
Since then, controversy has erupted in European leagues, especially when VAR draws lines on the screen about players for marginal calls. They were mocked as “offside in the armpit” because of the small margins.
“While those teams are accurate, that accuracy can be improved,” said Pierluigi Collina, who heads FIFA’s refereeing program and worked on the 2002 World Cup in the pre-tech era.
Each stadium in Qatar will have 12 under-ceiling cameras synchronized to track 29 data issues in the player frame 50 times per second. The data is processed with synthetic intelligence to create a three-dimensional offside line that is alerted by the official var team.
A sensor in the fit ball tracks its acceleration and provides a more accurate “kick point,” when the hand is played, to align it with offside line data, FIFA’s lead innovation officer Johannes Holzmüller said at an online briefing.
Ensuring that football’s most important occasion is a testament to technological progress, and avoids the mistakes that persist in World Cup culture, is a long-standing purpose of FIFA.
Englishman Frank Lampard’s shot that crossed the German goal line in 2010 but failed almost without delay put an end to then-president Sepp Blatter’s opposition to granting technological aid to referees.
Later in South Africa, an obvious offside allowed Carlos Tevez to score Argentina’s first goal in a 3-1 win over Mexico in the knockout stages.
In 2014, Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to leave the organisation in their first World Cup after Edin Dzeko’s first goal against Nigeria missed offside. Nigeria won 1-0.
FIFA’s efforts to prepare the new offside generation for the World Cup have been held back by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Live events took place at the Arab Cup in Qatar last December and the FIFA Club World Cup was played in February in the United Arab Emirates.
In a matter of seconds of an imaginable offside, a specialist member of the VAR team can manually check the line created through knowledge for attackers and defenders and the kick point of the pass, Holzmüller said.
It is the duty of the VAR administrator to alert the eligible referee to the correct resolution via his audio link. This takes 20 to 25 seconds compared to an average of 70 seconds lately for a complex offside.
“Sometimes, the duration of review checks is definitely too long,” Collina said, acknowledging that delays disrupt games. spectators, it’s absolutely different. “
The same 3D animations of offside calls that VARs will have for broadcasters and will be broadcast on stadium screens, most likely in the next game outage.
Collina is enthusiastic about the technology, less so through the frequently used description of “robot referees. “
“I perceive that he is very smart for the headlines, but he is not,” the Italian official said, protecting the key human detail of decision-making in football.
Collina also agreed that the generation will not end football’s love of controversy and debate over key incidents.
“There will be room for discussion,” he said.
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