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Technology and Soccer

Daisy Cardenas
University of Texas at El Paso
Marco Rodriguez, Fridays 9:00-10:20
RWS: 1302 OP-ED

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TECHNOLGY AND SOCCER

By: Daisy Cardenas

When talking about sports and technology it comes to mind football, baseball,
basketball, rugby, and even
tennis. The controversy is
created while relating
soccer and technology.
There are many people in
favor of the goal-line
technology being
introduce during soccer
games, but also many
people oppose to the idea.
There
are
several
discussion as why the
Hawk-Eye
Technology
should
not
be
implemented such as:
Slowing the speed of the game, changing the view of the game, causing technical
problems during a game, and the cost by not being able to afford the software for lower
soccer league divisions.
Although the debates going on about the Hawk-Eye technology there has been several
testing in order to prove there would be no effect against the flow of the game, or any
other technical problems.
The first major testing went on right before the 2014 World Cup. It was the first time that
any type of technology was use during a World Cup. During the 2014 World Cup game
between France and Honduras was the first time the Hawk-Eye technology contribute
with the decision of a controversial goal-line play made by Benzema.

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These successful play lead to the trust of the goal-line technology, and produce the
confidence for other soccer leagues to begin developing the testing of the Hawk-Eye
system.
Later on the Italian Series A Soccer League testing went on during real matches in order
to decide of the goal-line technology should be implemented or not. A summary of the
response time is reported, as evidenced, considering the realistic threshold of 2 seconds
for the systems response, it can be noted that in about 80% of the total number of
experiments the response time was acceptable (Spagnolo, 2013). The results of the
testing regarding the Italian Series A league demonstrated positive outcome in order for
the system to be incorporated.
So after analyzing some
important facts about recent
information on the Hawk-Eye
Technology should it be apply
during soccer games?
The
goal-line
technology
assistance to the referees enable
a more confident game
procedure. With the use of it
the controversy about any goalline play confusion would be
disclosed.
In order to achieve a more well developed game there has to be an equivalent procedure
take place in at least every 1st Division soccer league. First of all FIFA needs to design a
new regulation for the goal-line technology and contribute with a certain income for the
Hawk-Eye system. These would challenge a new way of soccer and technology working
together in order to developed a better soccer game.
The change has to begin taking place on the most important soccer leagues such as the
Liga BBVA, Champions League, Premier League, Liga Mx, and the European League.
This would assist with a later better development of the system in other minor soccer
leagues.
There has to be action take place in order for any more mistakes to occur, as the one of
the most controversial misunderstandings during the 2010 World Cup. When Lampards
goal was invalidated against Germany.

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So in order to keep these kind of mistakes from happening the Hawk-Eye technology
needs to be take in action and by applied in at least the most important world-wide soccer
leagues. It would actually benefit the flow of the game and the intensity would continue.

References
Williams, J. (2013, April 19). The Case Against
Goal-Line Technology. The New York

Times. Retrieved from

http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/the-case-against-

goal-line-

technology/?_r=1

Venables, M. (2013). They think its all over. Engineering & Technology, 8(5), 84-85.

Spagnolo, P., Leo, M. (2013). Non-Invasive Soccer Goal Line Technology: A Real Case
Study. Iee Computer Society, 1011-1018.