Goal Line Technology
Leon Prikhodovskiy
Professor Rhodes
8-10 PG draft.
Goal Line Technology Two forty-five minute half’s, eleven players on each team, one goal on each side of the field separated by one hundred twenty yards of grass. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. (Most Popular Sport in the World) The game is played in over two hundred and four countries around the world. The sport is officiated by four referees; a center head referee, two sideline referees, and one in charge of substitutions. In past years a lot of criticism has been addressed to the game of soccer and how it could be improved. It is criticized for not being a man sport and that the players are always pretending to get fouled. The main thing that has been critiqued is the judgment of the calls by the referee’s .The most popular of improvements that has come to attention that could change this is, goal line technology. Goal line technology would determine whether the ball has crossed any line on the field and most importantly the goal line. Once crossed, it would signal the head referee resulting in a goal. Before the introduction of these new changes the game had been played just fine. It was solely up to the referees to make a call on what they believed or saw in the game. I believe that goal line technology should not be incorporated into the game of soccer due to the facts that it would slow down the flow of the game, and take away from the history of the sport, as well as imposing more costs for teams to implement and train the use of technology.
Eight systems were designed and tested to see if the technology would even have a chance to be used. After numerous test and hundreds of thousands dollars spent, two systems were approved. “GoalRef” and British-based “Hawk-Eye” were the two systems that were tested in real game scenarios. Hawk-eye technology uses seven different cameras at different angles in the back of the goal in order to triangulate the ball. Then a signal is sent to
Professor Rhodes
8-10 PG draft.
Goal Line Technology Two forty-five minute half’s, eleven players on each team, one goal on each side of the field separated by one hundred twenty yards of grass. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. (Most Popular Sport in the World) The game is played in over two hundred and four countries around the world. The sport is officiated by four referees; a center head referee, two sideline referees, and one in charge of substitutions. In past years a lot of criticism has been addressed to the game of soccer and how it could be improved. It is criticized for not being a man sport and that the players are always pretending to get fouled. The main thing that has been critiqued is the judgment of the calls by the referee’s .The most popular of improvements that has come to attention that could change this is, goal line technology. Goal line technology would determine whether the ball has crossed any line on the field and most importantly the goal line. Once crossed, it would signal the head referee resulting in a goal. Before the introduction of these new changes the game had been played just fine. It was solely up to the referees to make a call on what they believed or saw in the game. I believe that goal line technology should not be incorporated into the game of soccer due to the facts that it would slow down the flow of the game, and take away from the history of the sport, as well as imposing more costs for teams to implement and train the use of technology.
Eight systems were designed and tested to see if the technology would even have a chance to be used. After numerous test and hundreds of thousands dollars spent, two systems were approved. “GoalRef” and British-based “Hawk-Eye” were the two systems that were tested in real game scenarios. Hawk-eye technology uses seven different cameras at different angles in the back of the goal in order to triangulate the ball. Then a signal is sent to