Ask any
football follower and he or she will tell you that 2014 World Cup was one of
the greatest. This World Cup averaged the maximum number of goals since 1970.
Exciting matches were decided in the last minutes with some surprising results,
and teams that don’t traditionally do well in international football
competitions did great, like Costa Rica, which at the end of group phase was
leading a group with three world champions. Nonetheless, one specific event
will be persistently remembered from the 2014 World Cup edition in Brazil. I’m
talking about the usage of technology to support referee decisions for the
first time in World Cup history, Vanishing
Spray and goal line technology.
First most
astonishing things was that FIFA governing body -- has permitted the use of
technology to automatically detect when a ball crosses the goal line. In a
tournament where every goal can mean the advancement of a team, and its nation,
the fact that a ball actually crossed the goal line takes on significant
importance. But reaching this certainty competently, quickly, and accurately
takes an advanced level of technology, which FIFA found in German company Goal
Control. And for the first time in a FIFA World Cup, referees are not only
measuring the distance, but marking both the spot of the kick as well as the 10
yard minimum for opposing players. Referees
mark these spots with a foam called 9.15 Fair Play, a vanishing spray that
disappears only minutes after use. The use of the vanishing spray is conducive
to the goal of refereeing by facilitating the execution of referees’ duties and
has had an undeniable positive impact on football. No wonder proponents of the vanishing spray insist
that its use promote “fair play.” It obviously neutralizes the attempt to
obtain an illegitimate advantage (the encroaching of the defensive wall and the
moving forward of the ball). "However, been a football
fan I believe these gradually-tightening restrictions may eventually kill the
beauty of the game"
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