GOAL-LINE TECHNOLOGY will be used at the 2014 World Cup, FIFA announced this afternoon.
After it was implemented successfully at the Club World Cup in Japan back in December, the football governing body has given it the go-ahead for this year’s Confederations Cup and the World Cup finals in 18 months’ time.
“The aim is to use GLT in order to support the match officials and to install a system in all stadia, pending the successful installation, and pre-match referee tests,” a statement reads.
With different technologies on the market, FIFA has launched a tender today, setting out the technical requirements for the two forthcoming competitions in Brazil.”
Hawkeye and Goalref are two systems tested in the past but companies interested in the tender have been invited to apply with a final decision to be made in April.
Calls to introduce GLT have been increasing in recent years due to several contentious decisions including Frank Lampard’s goal that wasn’t given against Germany in the 2010 World Cup.
While FIFA President Sepp Blatter stated that he was opposed to it in the past, he has been persuaded to change his opinion on advancing how the game is officiated.
As a pool fan, houllier blamed all around him/ yes bad cross from ginola but what about the centre back that the striker strolled past
The French do love to hate each other don’t they…
Players make mistakes, and that one will haunt Ginola for the rest of his life, no two ways about it. Gerard falling on his arse against Chelsea and Jesper Olson passing the ball into the path of Butragueno in the But 1986 World Cup spring to mind.
But France’s World Cup hopes weren’t just shattered in the match against Bulgaria. The full facts are as follows; With two matches left to play in their group, both of them at home, France needed just 1 point. First up was Israel, who France had beaten 4-0 in Tel Aviv, and hadn’t a single win to their name, and Bulgaria who had already beaten France in Sofia, so they should have had a fair idea of what they were dealing with.
The French led both games (2-1 and 1-0 respectively) but went on to lose both, I believe, in injury time.
Houllier has repeatedly blamed Ginola for the entire failure due to his part in the Bulgaria defeat, but the blame lies with himself more so than anyone else.
What an emphatic collapse, I remember it fondly.
The Israel game was the biggest Mess up by far, instead they blame the defeat where they lost in the last minute to the eventual World cup semi finalists
yea finals should have kept the ball down at the corner flag and killed off the game but what about the keeper getting beaten at his near post.
* finals is typo for ginola in my post above
If it was an Irish player today he would have passed it back instead of take the shot!