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.
Shock horror. FIFA emerges from dark ages.
Haha! About b-y time too!
Now if they can do something about the pathetic amount of diving….
They do. It’s called a booking for simulation
About time..
If it wasn’t for Fred Flintstone Blatter it would have been used years ago.
He has kept soccer in the dark ages for years.
Could they also get rid of those so called officials behind the goals also as they get in way of the linesman.
And only 8 years after the Roy Carroll incident. Well done to all at FIFA for their due diligence.
Poor Sepp. Now his friends will find it harder to fix games.
Exactly. Fifa have been fixing the game for years.
In other news, caveman leader decides to use flint arrowheads, 200 years after discovery of flint.
About time….
I look forward to the controversy when this is used to allow a goal that was originally offside
I know it’s nice out, but April Fool’s Day already? The year’s flying by.
Offsides, diving leading to penalties, off the ball incidents not to mention frenchmen handling the ball won’t be sorted with GLT. Nice start FIFA, but keep going. God forbid we’ll have a game in the future that can’t be screwed by match fixing.
Its about time really,good a thing they have waken up from their slumber to embrace technology
better late then never i suppose
Technology has no place in the beautiful game IMHO
Neither does Sepp Blatter