Video assistance made its appearance at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Place this time in the "semi-automatic offside", which will be used during the next World Cup, from November 21 to December 18 in Qatar.
FIFA validated Friday the use of this tool intended to accelerate and make reliable the arbitration decisions.
This additional step, tested during the Arab Cup at the end of 2021 and then during the Club World Cup, makes it possible to establish the position of the players and the ball at any time, facilitating the detection of offsides without however replacing the judgment of the referees.
Cameras under the roof, sensor in the balloon
During the World Cup, the "semi-automated offside technology" (SAOT) will use 12 cameras placed under the roof of the stadium, and will monitor "up to 29 data points" per player "50 times per second", explains the FIFA in a statement.
Placed in the center of the ball, a sensor will send data to the viewing room “500 times per second”, making it possible to determine when the ball is played much more precisely than a human eye could.
"By combining [these] data, and using artificial intelligence", an alert will be transmitted to the video referees "each time the ball is received by an attacker who was in an offside position" at the time of the pass, details the football instance.
In “a few seconds”, it will then be up to them to manually check the moment of the pass as well as the offside line, before informing the main referee, who will make the final decision.
In order to allow the public to better understand the refereeing decisions, 3D animations would then be broadcast on the screens of the stadium, specifies FIFA.
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