First match under FIFA with technology as a lineman. XNUMXD models and computers saw offside and canceled goals for fractions of a second.
Football has officially entered a new era, as the first canceled goal as an offside by state-of-the-art technology is a fact. In a recent match in the United Arab Emirates, at the FIFA-sponsored Club World Cup, the first goal was canceled due to the decision of the electronic linesman.
The match took place between Al Jazeera and Pire. Al Jazeera player Alameri Zaged sent the ball into the net for 4-0. But the VAR that played the role of the electronic linesman showed offside for fractions of a second and the goal was canceled.
The new offside charging technology is based on cameras on the sides of the pitch where they record the match. The images are received by one program XNUMXD visualization that uses automated ball detection and creates XNUMXD models of players to show their exact position on the grass.
Thus the computer knows with surgical precision the position of the players at the moment of contact of a player with the ball. According to FIFA this will improve the accuracy of the kick spot using data monitoringand sensor technology from camera systems, while a player's skeleton will be modeled to identify which part of the body is exposed.
The beginning of technology and football has been made and at the moment the system is essentially being tested for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. There is a plan by FIFA to place 12 cameras in each stadium, which will process the movement of 29 points of the body of each player 50 times per second.
When the cameras detect that some part of a player's body is exposed, they will send signal in the operations room and from there on it is the VAR's responsibility to judge that there is offside or no influence on the phase by the exposed footballer.
Watch a video with the cancellation of the goal.
La nueva modalidad para marcar el offside. Ya lo venían probando en torneos anteriore y hoy pasó en el Mundial de Clubes. It takes more than 20 seconds. Fast, efficient and just. Así debería ser el VAR siempre. If you want to start offside because of this charlamos otro día… pic.twitter.com/EsT82AhiUz
- Marcelo Lewkowicz (@marcelolewko) February 3, 2022
