Currently, the average time for a referee’s decision in contested episodes is 70 seconds, which is expected to change to 25 seconds with the help of a semi-automated backend system.
The decision on the position of the back will be generated on the big screen in a separate room by the VAR and then the decision taken will be received in a flash by the referee of the game. Football fans in front of their TV screens will not have to worry, as the broadcast will show 3D animation depicting the situation at the back and showing the decision made.
Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, who currently works as FIFA’s head of global football development, has been a strong advocate of the technology and wanted it to be included in the 2022 World Cup.
12 cameras placed under the stadium ground will track 29 body parts of each individual player, while Adidas will insert a sensor into the World Cup soccer ball and record the data at 500 Hz (hertz) times per second.
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In the tournament, this technology will be available as early as the World Cup match between England and Iran, which will take place on November 21. At the Qatar World Cup, there will be approximately eight people in the VAR room for each match.
The semi-automatic rear detection system will be used in this year’s World Cup. The system has already been tested at other high-class tournaments, including the FIFA Club World Cup in February.
Officially, this system is called semi-automatic, because the final decision is still made by the referee.
It should be mentioned that the English Premier League is ready to introduce a semi-automatic back detection system in 2023/24. in the season of 2016, provided that it works flawlessly and accurately during the World Cup.
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