Inertia recognition technology helps Videoárbiter decide in real time. Adidas ball was presented this week.
The official ball of the Football Club World Cup, this Friday revealed to the public, is endowed with inertia recognition technology to support decisions by the VideoRbiter (VAR) system.
The goal, explains Adidas’s, is to help report on out -of -game situations, as well as to detect poorly clear touches.
“Integrated ball connectivity technology sends data from measurable units of inertia to the VAR system, to a speed of 500 instances per secondand in real time, ”can be read in a statement from FIFA.
The ball is called Al Rihla And, according to Adidas, it was strictly tested in several professional soccer clubs, namely in the FIFA Arabic Cup and the FIFA 2021 Club World Championship in Abu Dhabi.
Thus, the ball of Tournament in which FC Porto and Benfica will participate It will send data that, “combined with players’ positioning data and the application of artificial intelligence”, help the referees present in the video referee “make decisions about the faster game, helping to identify the author of each touch on the ball,”, also supporting the identification of hand instances on the ball.
Ball, Developed by Adidasit also presents announced technological innovations in ergonomics that give it “greater game accuracy”, with a decoration alluding to the host country, the United States.
The Club World Cup, an unprecedented format for 32 teams, including Benfica and FC Porto, will take place between June 14 and July 13, with 12 European emblems, 11 from America and nine of the African, Asian and Oceanic continents.
