Yes, this is the title of this article but it could already be today’s football, because FIFA is going to implement, in the next Arab Cup that it sponsors and which begins already on November 30, a automated player control system, in order to detect when there may be an offside.
We have already had the technique of the goal line, which no one disputes anymore, because it is better than the goal that it is, it really is, and everyone has agreed not to criticize it, although there were voices against it. first steps, almost a decade ago.
Then, it was the VAR, and although there are dimes and bites from time to time, it is imposing itself little by little to be, and I do not think I am wrong, already indisputable in no time and we will not remember the fights that it has entailed, because it will go away improving season by season. And, now, this system so that the referee, yes, he directly, and not through a third party or a screen (although this is not clear and perhaps the braid has to go check it) can know if an off side existed or not in a specific play.
The truth is that what is proposed is almost science fiction, because there will be 29 detectable technical supports that each player will have and that will be monitored by 12 cameras. In other words, the footballer will have a series of places on his kit (and his body?) That will allow him to give the information almost immediately to the referee, so that he can whistle offside or not. Your assistants will have less work or will they also get that information? That has not yet been said and we will be able to verify it immediately, in that FIFA Arab Cup.
The Premier will test this technology
While it is being tested, and if it works, it is already said that the technology will be applied in the next World Cup in Qatar (where the Arab Cup will also take place) at the end of next year. But, the Premier, always the Premier, is already on the move and plans to launch this product in the 2023-2024 season. It is not the place to talk about it, but English competition is always in gear to hit the ground running, in view of anything, technical or commercial, that can help it to be in the first rank …
There was a series, many years ago, called “The bionic man”, and the truth is that one thinks that science, that helps us so much in everyday life (I am writing on a computer, which seems to have always existed, and not , It is not like that …, and I am going to send an email to the director of Superdeporte, and no, it does not exist since time immemorial; or already the same vaccines against the coronavirus) it is changing perspectives that seemed perennial.
Football is no longer so, and if it was a scandal that players could be replaced (they no longer look for a macho man like Beckenbauer with a dislocated shoulder playing the World Cup in England, back in 1966), or that he could get yellow cards and red (but, was it not a man’s game, come on … little cards to me ?, said some), these constant changes in the game (and let alone on television with their advertisements on the grass, etc. .) are a true revolution that takes for dead the immortality that seemed to exist in rules and ways of playing.
This gives food for thought and, although we are talking about a book of stories from 1950, that the great Isaac Asimov bequeathed us forever, the “I, Robot” of the Russian-American author must return to the shelves and, of course, I recommend or a rereading or, for the youngest, who will have seen Will Smith’s film from a few years ago, who will read it to them, who will enjoy it in a big way, almost as much as if they were posting or instagramming (and forgive the “ words ”). Take care of that one that they say sixth wave, because we have to be able to enjoy the holidays that are coming.
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