Goalline technology will be used at FIFA World Cup matches for the first time in Brazil to avoid the referees’ misjudgement on controversial kicks at goalline.
The 2010 World Cup was a catalyst to introduce the technology after England were wrongly denied a goal, when the ball clearly crossed the line, in their Round 16 tie against Germany.It was incorrectly ruled not to be a goal by the referee, this could have placed the game at a 2-2 score, leaving the match in equilibrium, but that didn’t happen. Germany later went to add two more goals to end the match in a 4-1 victory.
FIFA has confirmed that German company GoalControl GmbH will be the goalline technology provider for the 2014 World Cup finals following a successful trial at the Confederations Cup.
GoalControl was awarded the contract for the Confederations Cup, plus the Club World Cup and the World Cup, in April but the deal was subject to the technology passing tests at the tournament in Brazil last summer.
A total of fourteen cameras have been hung up in all the 12 World Cup stadiums in Brazil. Each of the goal will have seven cameras trained on the goalmouth. The cameras have been designed to recorded 500 images per second, which is digested by a computer to transmit the result to the referee’s special watch within a second of a ball crossing the goal line.
“This is the future,” said Dirk Broichhausen, who heads the German company GoalControl, whose system will be used at the tournament and was demonstrated Monday at Rio’s Maracana stadium.
Several tests ranging to 2,400 have been run in Brazil, the accuracy level is reported to be 100%.
“Most of the time the referee doesn’t have the best vantage point for his decision — goal or no goal,” said Johannes Holzmuller, who heads a FIFA program that helped implement the technology. “The same applies for normal TV cameras.”
The usual debate of it was a goal,it was not a goal comes to a halt,thanks to technology.
