FIFA has introduced that referees at this 12 months’s Membership World Cup will put on physique cameras as a part of a brand new trial. The goal is to present followers and coaches a greater view of what the referee sees in the course of the recreation.
The cameras have been lately authorised by IFAB, soccer’s rule-making physique. FIFA referees committee chairman Pierluigi Collina mentioned the transfer will provide a “new expertise” for viewers and be helpful for coaching and reviewing referee choices.
“It’s an excellent probability to indicate soccer from a unique approach,” Collina mentioned. “It helps broadcasters and coaches to grasp how referees see and make choices throughout a match.”
FIFA can be introducing a brand new rule to cease goalkeepers from losing time. Within the trial, if a goalkeeper holds the ball for greater than eight seconds, the opposite workforce will probably be given a nook kick.
Proper now, goalkeepers are solely supposed to carry the ball for six seconds, and in the event that they go over, it needs to be punished with an oblique free-kick — however that rule isn’t enforced.
The 32-team Membership World Cup will probably be held in the US from 14 June to 13 July.