Tomorrow, Saturday, the official matches of the new season in the five major leagues will start against Liverpool and Manchester City for the shield of the English Football Association, which is witnessing the application of several important amendments to the law of the game.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB), which is responsible for adopting the amendments and enacting the laws of the popular game, approved these amendments during its 136th meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, last June, and announced the start of their implementation from the current 2022-2023 season in all competitions. Local and international, including the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

One of the most important amendments is to allow 5 substitutions for each team per match, after this change was applied temporarily since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, after the laws allowed only 3 substitutions.

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 Football Association “FIFA” (FIFA) put forward the idea in May 2020, but it returned again to the system of three changes in the past two seasons, before agreeing again to adopt 5 Substitutions starting from the current season.

The Legislative Council also confirmed the old text that required the goalkeeper to stand on the goal line between the goalposts and under the crossbar until the penalty kick or penalty shoot-out is taken, as he is only allowed lateral movement, and is not allowed to advance from the line until the ball has been kicked and is in play.

IFAP decided to try the proposal of Arsene Wenger, the development director in FIFA, regarding the resumption of play after the ball went outside the touchline with a touch kick with the foot instead of throwing it by hand, as is the case, to become a touch kick.

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line man robot

The Legislative Council also approved the use of a new semi-automated technology to detect intrusion, through the assistant robot for assistant referees, which proved effective in controlling intrusion in just half a second.

And the British newspaper "The Sun" reported last June that the preparations for the first participation of robots in refereeing at the World Cup, for the first time in the history of the largest tournament for the round witch, have been completed.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said he was keen to introduce the "semi-automated" system in the Qatar 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 Penalty kicks close to him.

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10 cameras to adjust intrusion in half a second

The Sun newspaper 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 that Liverpool won, 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 that was held last February.

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

The technique of automated infiltration using the “line man” was officially used - 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 half a second Only, through modern technology that relies on tracking the players' limbs and the ball, which are the main determinants of offside.

Article 11 of the Football (Offside) 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 automatic 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 if the player is ahead of any part of his body, as is the case in video games.

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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The mountain gave birth to a mouse

The analyst and former international referee Hamdi Al-Qadri - for Al-Jazeera Net - comments on these new amendments by saying that what he called the new amendments to the football laws are not commensurate with the number of meetings, private transfers, salaries and imaginary rewards received by the FIFA Development Department, led by Wenger, and if an expression of these is informed Modifications The saying goes, "The mountain gave birth to a mouse."

Al-Qadri added that the proposal to experiment with the foot kick kick has existed for more than a quarter of a century and was not the brainchild of Wenger. Previously, they would not discuss it again and even try it again because its negatives outweigh its positives.

Al-Qadri added that amending the goalkeeper’s lack of movement forward during the implementation of penalty kicks or penalty shootouts does not require amendments and proposals, but rather requires the referees to be very firmly committed to applying the text of the Basic Law that has been present in all football laws for more than 22 years, which was issued in 2000. Almost the same text.

  • Former international referee