Arsene Wenger:
FIFA Ready to Use Automated Offside Calls in 2022 World Cup
ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA will be ready to implement an automated system for offside calls at next year’s World Cup in Qatar, Arsene Wenger said.
The game’s rulemaker, IFAB, said last month it was continuing to review the offside law and planned to test technology that would allow for ‘semi-automatic’ decisions to limit the need for long waits for VAR reviews.
Wenger, however, said he supported the ‘automated’ offside technology, which directly informs a referee’s assistant if an incident is offside.
According to FIFA here, semi-automated offside technology provides VAR with additional information before the referee makes the final call.
"The automated offside I think will be ready for 2022,” Wenger, FIFA’s head of football development, was quoted as saying in The Times here.
Last month, former Netherlands forward Marco van Basten called on football’s lawmakers to consider scrapping the offside rule, saying the game would be better off without it.
The game’s rulemaker, IFAB, said last month it was continuing to review the offside law and planned to test technology that would allow for ‘semi-automatic’ decisions to limit the need for long waits for VAR reviews.
Wenger, however, said he supported the ‘automated’ offside technology, which directly informs a referee’s assistant if an incident is offside.
According to FIFA here, semi-automated offside technology provides VAR with additional information before the referee makes the final call.
"The automated offside I think will be ready for 2022,” Wenger, FIFA’s head of football development, was quoted as saying in The Times here.
Last month, former Netherlands forward Marco van Basten called on football’s lawmakers to consider scrapping the offside rule, saying the game would be better off without it.