The International Football Association Board (The IFAB), the football’s legislator, said the semi-automatic VAR offside technology controlled by Artificial Intelligence would of course be rolled out for this year. World Cup in Qatar.
The offside decision time, in some cases up to four minutes, is a big problem with VAR. Semi-automatic technology developed by FIFA cuts this time down to 3-4 seconds by providing VAR with faster and more accurate information.
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It has been extensively tested through FIFA competitions over the past few years and used “live” in its first matches at the Club World Cup in February, and is considered a huge success by the club. FIFA.
The IFAB said further discussions will take place along with analysis of the trials, before FIFA makes a final decision on its implementation for the World Cup, which begins in November.
“It looks very good and very promising,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino told a news conference on Monday. “Our experts are reviewing [the trials] before we make a decision whether it will be used for the World Cup or not. “
Pierluigi Collina, FIFA’s head of refereeing, added: “My personal opinion is that I am very confident that we can go ahead with this. We want to achieve accuracy, quick decisions. More, also more acceptable decisions We have seen in matches where semi-auto offside was made this goal was achieved.
“It uses the same process as goal-line technology, and we have found that to be very well accepted by the football community, no one has commented on this. We are confident that the response is similar, in terms of acceptability, can be offered for the semi-finals. – automatic offside.”
The trials will also continue in ways that give attacking players an extra advantage in all offside situations in all games.
“We are looking at that an offside is very unrelated to punishment in modern football,” Collina added. “So we’re running this test. Unfortunately, the competitions these trials were allowed to test have been suspended or abandoned for almost two years due to the pandemic.
“So now we have trials going on in [youth football] in the Netherlands, in Italy and in Sweden and we will certainly come to a conclusion after having the evidence and data from these trials. “
Semi-automated VAR offside technology will also provide much-improved graphics of offside decisions, and replays will be available to broadcasters and stadium monitors within 25 seconds.
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The system uses 12 custom cameras installed under the roof of the stadium rather than standard television cameras, as is currently the case. It allows for a much more accurate assessment of the timing of a pass and tracks 29 data points about the players to create an AI model of offside situations.
The technology will automatically send an alert if there is a player in an offside position, then the VAR must assess whether the player is active and/or having an impact on the game and, if so, send the alert. notify the assistant referee to raise the flag. .
By speeding the process up to a few seconds, hopefully fans will no longer feel like they’ve lost their spontaneous goal celebration due to fear of VAR disallowing a goal, in most cases.
The Premier Leaguealong with other major tournaments, hopes to introduce the technology for the 2023-24 season after a successful debut at the World Cup.
IFAB also confirmed they will hold tests to limit time wasted, with the ball usually playing for only 54 minutes of 90 minutes.
