The International Football Association Board (IFAB) - which is responsible for adopting the amendments and enacting the laws of the popular game - announced that it will formally adopt, during its 136th meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, tomorrow, Monday, several important amendments to the law of the game.

One of the most important amendments, which is expected to be officially approved by IFAP, is to allow 5 substitutions for each team per match, after this change has been applied temporarily since 2020 due to the “Covid-19” pandemic, after the laws allowed only 3 substitutions.

The council will also discuss during the meeting more issues and proposed decisions about substitutions as a result of concussion injuries and the semi-automatic intrusion detection technology, through the assistant robot for assistant referees, which has proven effective in controlling intrusion in just half a second.

Although allowing five substitutions for each team in the match will become legal, the application of the rule in some tournaments will be in the hands of the authorities supervising the organization of these local championships in the civil federations.

For example, the English Football Association agreed to allow 5 substitutions when the International Federation “FIFA” (FIFA) put forward the idea in May 2020, but it returned again to the system of three changes in the past two seasons.

The FA has again agreed to adopt 5 substitutions starting from next season.

136th Annual General Meeting of The IFAB scheduled to take place on 13 June

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6 substitutions

The International Legislative Council said that the system will continue to implement the five substitutions on 3 occasions at the latest, in addition to the substitutions that take place during the break between the two halves.

There is the possibility of allowing a sixth substitution in the event that the match continues for extra time.

The new amendments to be adopted by the International Football Association Board will be implemented from the first of next July, and they will be applied in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

The council began experimenting with "permanent concussion replacements" last year to ensure their effectiveness.

The council said that if a player was suspected of having a concussion, the injured player should be protected by replacing him and excluding him "permanently" from the match.

line man robot

And the British newspaper "The Sun" reported last week that the preparations for the first participation of robots in arbitration at the World Cup, for the first time in the history of the largest tournament for the round witch, have been completed, and it only lacks the approval of the International Council on Monday.

The newspaper said that FIFA President Gianni Infantino is keen to introduce the "semi-automated" infiltration system through the "line man" robot at the World Cup, whose matches will start next November, after a series of experiments in some recent FIFA tournaments.

And “line man” was the old name of the assistant referee, until the eighties of the last century, when his task was limited to infiltration and the exit of the ball outside the lines, but his tasks expanded since the 1994 World Cup in the United States, and his tasks expanded little by little until he reached his effective participation in calculating kicks The penalty is close to it.

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10 cameras

Sun said that this "line man" robot uses 10 cameras to track 29 physical points for each player with high accuracy, noting that its use is not a product of the moment, but several experiments were conducted on it that began in the Club World Cup in 2019 won by Liverpool, and the Arab Cup that was held in 4 of the eight World Cup stadiums in Qatar at the end of last year, and finally the Club World Cup, which was held last February.

She added that all evidence confirms that the new technology in offside is much faster than it is under the video assistant referee (VAR) technology.

It is therefore due to be approved for use in the World Cup, during the belated annual general meeting of FIFA on Monday in Qatar, which was postponed from last March in Zurich as a result of the Russian war on Ukraine.

The “Sun” indicated that the Italian Pierluigi Collina (chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee) criticizes the use of the term “offside robot” and believes that referees and assistants “are still responsible for making decisions on the field of play, and that technology only gives them valuable support to make faster and more accurate decisions, especially When the decision to offside is very difficult."

Adjust intrusion in half a second

And the automated infiltration technology using the “line man” was used officially for the first time, in the Club World Cup this year, and this official experience confirmed that its accuracy and speed in making decisions far exceeds the speed of the video assistant referee, as it informs the mouse of the presence of infiltration within only half a second , through modern technology that relies on tracking the players’ parties and the ball, which are the main determinants of offside.

The International Football Association, represented by its referees committee, continues to experiment with a new technology called semi-automated infiltration during the Club World Cup competitions.

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Very briefly, Article 11 of the Football Law states that a player is penalized for being in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched by one of his teammates if he participates in active active play by interfering with play or with an opponent or by obtaining an opportunity and taking advantage of Being in an offside position if the ball rebounds to him, whether from the post, the crossbar or the opponent.

To activate the automated infiltration technology, cameras are installed parallel to the two contact lines around the field to capture the movement of players and the ball, and the technology gives about 29 data points for each player by creating three-dimensional visual representations, to distinguish whether the player is ahead of any part of his body, as is the case in video games.

A new shift in arbitration

Just as major modifications such as the approval of offside and the use of yellow and red cards in matches were a major shift in the world of arbitration, automated infiltration represents a new era in the world of arbitration after the mouse technique, in order to determine whether there is infiltration or not more accurately and quickly than the mouse, to reduce errors Offside that may change the outcome of matches.

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"This data source can have a positive impact on the game by improving (offside) decision-making and increasing objectivity," said Johannes Holz Müller, FIFA Director of Football Technology and Innovation.

"FIFA's approach when it comes to tracking the parties used in this stealth technique is correct," Dr. Patrick Lucy, chief scientist at sports data company Stats Perform told Forbes.

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Artificial intelligence

He adds, "Artificial intelligence is used to give accurate measurements and create offside lines that had to be drawn manually in the past, and this eliminates human error, and it does not mean that the human factor is completely absent, as the referee or assistant referee can look at the image created by the artificial intelligence, and know the Immediately whether a player is offside or not, the referee can also use his own judgment to decide whether that player is interfering with play, or if there is any other reason to award the goal.

Dr. Lucy explains that this approach combines "getting people to do what they do really well, and getting computers to do what they are really good at."

That is why Colina said this is not an "automated infiltration".

The author points out that although TV broadcasts do not provide the quality of live tracking technology required for the parties to make accurate arbitration decisions, artificial intelligence will be able to use TV broadcasts to generate real-time statistics including expected goals, and the estimated position of players on the field, and this is done using A fingerprint of player tracking data for the past 20 years, combined with machine learning algorithms to estimate the whereabouts of players who are not on screen.

  • Former international referee