The 2014 World Cup in Brazil will feature a couple of major advances- the use of goal line technology and a type of vanishing spray to be deployed in free kick situations.
Referees in Brazil will take to the pitch with a shaving cream-like foam which will be used to designate free kick spots on the field.
The spray will used to prevent attackers from manipulating their position to goal and defenders from sneaking within the 10-yard limit of the kick.
The new environmentally, and player, friendly technology was invented in Brazil and has been used successfully at this year’s U20 World Cup in Turkey and at the current Club World Cup in Marrakesh.
“We started using it in all competitions this year and at the World Cup we will definitely keep on the same path,” FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Thursday from Marrakesh.
“For the discipline of the game, it’s good. I was skeptical at first, but after talking to referees who used this system, they were all happy with it.”
Possibly more important will be the use of goal-line technology for the first time.
Providing visual confirmation whether a ball has crossed the goal or not, a type of GoalControl or Goal Decision System will also been implemented in Brazil.
GDS has been used this season in the English Premier League and is also in use at the Club World Cup while other international domestic leagues, including the German Bundesliga, consider introducing similar goal-line technology.
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