The robotic flag referee is ready for the Qatar 2022 World Cup

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has become on a date with a unique development, which will witness the support of the referees of the banner of robots.
The website “sportsbrief” said that the International Football Association “FIFA” has completed its preparations to try a new technology in the next World Cup, in light of the efforts of Gianni Infantino, President of “FIFA”, to improve the standards of the world championship.
It is expected that the robots will only assist match officials in detecting offside, as making decisions about offside cases continues to burden the field officials and flag officials.
And the President of the International Football Association, Gianni Infantino, had discussed the use of the “semi-automated stealth” system, which uses 10 cameras to track 29 physical points for each player, and was used for the first time in the Club World Cup that Liverpool FC won, and this technology was also used in The last Arab Cup was held inside four of the eight World Cup stadiums in Doha.
FIFA’s executives are expected to decide on the idea of ​​the new robotic flag referee at the annual general meeting of the governing body’s governing body.
For his part, former Italian referee Pierluigi Collina, who is also the head of FIFA’s referees, said: “Referees and assistants are still responsible for the offside decision, technology only gives them support to make more accurate and faster decisions, especially when the decision to offside is very difficult.