Sensor in the ball, new offside technology
This World Cup takes the fan into the VAR room
In the 2018 World Cup, FIFA boldly used VAR technology for the first time. Now there is another novelty for Qatar 2022: semi-automatic stealth technology.
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The attacker will watch such a 3D animation at home in front of the TV or at the stadium: why and with what part of the body the attacker was offside by a few millimeters.
Alan KoonsFootball reporter
Johannes Holzmuller, FIFA’s Director of Innovation and Technology, formulated the goal as follows: “We must make VAR faster and more accurate.”
When it came to the question of whether or not there was an offside, it worked. “So far, it has taken an average of 70 seconds to locate the offside,” says the Bavarian. Now this number should be reduced to an average of 25.
500 beats per second!
Three things make this possible: the “flight” World Cup ball, which thanks to a sensor in the middle of the ball, delivers data to the VAR chamber 500 times per second (!) so that the ball is released the moment the ball is released. can be precisely determined. Then the human body: 29 data points, including the relevant limbs and limbs to determine the offside position, are collected 50 times per second to determine the exact location on the pitch. Everything is recorded by 12 cameras installed under the roof of the stadium.
An offside warning sounds in the VAR space
The technology is semi-automated because everything is probably automated. However, in the end, the VAR first checks the identified offside automatically (manually) and informs the referee. The final decision is still up to the people. But: every essentially punishable offside situation is detected automatically within three seconds and the referees in the VAR room are alerted by a caution.
Fans in the stadium will also be able to feel like they are in the VAR room: 3D animation with the best possible perspective for visualizing the offside position will be visible both in the stadium and on TV in a very short time.
Also helped with the handball question
The technology has been successfully tested in the 2021 Arab Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup 2021. It has another advantage: thanks to the precise determination of the point of impact of the ball, the question whether the ball touched the arm or the hand in a potential handball can now be automatically answered. The salient part of the often very opaque decision as to whether there is a penalized handball is still taken by the on-field referee, who is often unfortunate in these cases…
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