Al Junaibi: The World Cup smart ball detects offside and touch cases

World Cup balls are shipped out before matches.

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The former international football referee, Muhammad Al-Junaibi, said that the sensors in the Qatar World Cup 2022 ball showed many benefits that help World Cup referees to manage matches and make accurate decisions, most notably detecting offsides, and the player touching the ball with his hand, to determine kicks. penalty, as well as knowing who was the last player to touch the ball, indicating that the sensors send signals to a watch worn by the referee in his hand, in which there is a device linking the referee and the ball, stressing that the ball when it comes out of the player's foot gives a signal to the sensor that it came out of his foot.

He explained to «Emirates Today»: «Any case of touching the ball appears in the sensor, and this is what showed that the Portuguese national team player, Cristiano Ronaldo, did not touch the ball with his head in the first goal of the Portuguese national team against Uruguay, within the group stage, and the controversy was resolved by counting the goal. To his colleague Bruno Fernandez, and this is also one of the benefits of this new technology in football.

And he continued, "The notices in the ball showed their usefulness in cases of offside."

The International Federation (FIFA) had announced the characteristics of the World Cup ball, known as the "journey", as it is distinguished by its ability to move through the air faster than any other ball in the history of the tournament, and the heart of the ball provides speed, accuracy, consistency of movement and stability in the air. 

To view an electronic supplement .. the World Cup teams, 

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