Technology has become extremely influential in all areas of human endeavor and one of the world’s most popular games in the world is not left out this time around. By the time you are reading this piece, the Soccer World Cup Tournament would have entered its fourth day as it kicked off on Thursday, June 12 in Brazil.
There is the need for this to go ahead because of some technological innovations that has been introduced in this year’s tournament that will definitely affect the flow of the game which soccer lovers might find strange.
One controversy that has had football fans go at each other’s neck was whether England’s goal against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup finals, actually crossed the goal line or not. Forty eight years down the line, there is still heated debate over the matter and sadly the debate may never be solved. As far as England was concerned; they carried the trophy, and that is it. For the Germans, it was all a big and unfair rip off.
This kind of goal line dispute may, however, not repeat itself in this year’s World Cup tournament and subsequent ones. This is due to the development and introduction of goal line technology by the World Soccer ruling body, FIFA, starting with this tournament. — Continue Reading
