World Cup 2010 Football/Soccer Games Coming Without Technology Support

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Football or soccer, call it what you will, although, technically the first one is the real name of the game, but this is probably the most watched and cheered for sport in the world.

Every four years, the strongest 32 teams in the world meet in a country of their choosing, South Africa in this case, and try to win the World Cup. This year, the defending champions, whoever they are (I know it’s Italy but I still feel like they don’t deserve the title) will have some fierce opposition as there are some splendid teams competing for the cup.

The only problems that will disturb the competition are referees and their intentional and/or unintentional mistakes that tend to ruin so many games so often. FIFA had a chance to make it all better by simply introducing goal line cameras and/or in-ball sensors that will tell us when the ball has passed the goal line at least. Sure there are other mistakes that lead to offside goals or weird penalties but you can’t expect everything to be corrected at once.

And neither does FIFA since it banned both ideas. It doesn’t want any goal line technology that could interfere with the game and I can’t wait to see one of them superpowers lose because of a goal that will prove later it wasn’t.

Why is it fine to contest decisions with technological aid in other sports while football/soccer referee decisions are only based on the limited capabilities of man? Sure we want to keep enjoying the game as it is but let’s make it really fair for both teams that enter the field for 90+ minutes. What do you say Irish fans? Do you have anything in particular to say to FIFA?

Oh and FIFA might want to destroy that whole offside rule at some point in the future, which is totally wrong in my book but also totally unrelated to technology in football/soccer.

At least we’ll totally be able to watch some World Cup games in 3D this summer…