Posted on 11/29/2022 9:41:12 PM PST by Pol-92064
When the 2022 World Cup made its debut on Sunday, it kicked off one of the most significant in-game uses of technology in sports history.
All tournament long, match balls will contain a sensor that collects spatial positioning data in real time — the first World Cup to employ such a ball-tracking mechanism. This, combined with existing optical tracking tools, will make VAR (video assistant referees) and programs like offside reviews more accurate and streamlined than they’ve ever been. Combining these two forms of tracking has long been a holy grail of sorts in technology circles, and FIFA’s use of the ball sensor in particular will serve as a highly public test case over the next four weeks.
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Soccer is a sport for sissies. Popular in the third world because it doesn’t require much equipment.
Spent four years watching my son play soccer....only time I ever went to a soccer game.Enjoyed it ,but only because my son was playing.
Women’s roller derby is pretty good, but I prefer beach volleyball. It isn’t only the ball that bounces!
I don’t watch soccer at all, but it does interest me as a worldwide cultural phenomenon which has in fact sparked at least one war: The Soccer War between Honduras and El Salvador, requiring Papal intervention to end it, 1969. Soccer has spurred riots and murders as well.
Communist football.
I’m I not sure you’re alone.
Soccer is boring and I do not watch it. However, I do like it when underdogs win in any competition so I tacitly look at the scores to relish when a big dog loses.
Nope! Far from it. I haven’t watched on second of soccer in years and years and I’m not going to start now. I literally could not care less.
Ditto.
Me too.
But now with this exciting new technology, you can have more ways to be bored!
Or something.
I love soccer & IMHO it’s the best sport, but this World Cup is a staged pile of garbage.
Watching Middle Eastern teams beat legendary South America teams is laughable. FIFA has turned the world cup into Wrestlemania with massive keyfabe.
Soccer is like Hollywood, it’s all about being pretty and acting.
include me in.
Soccer is the sport of the 3rd world.
No
We’re having a drought here in Texas, causing bunches of ants to be running crazily around on the dirt looking for water. It’s just as exciting to watch them, and you don’t even have to wait for specific times to watch.
No.
There is a world full of things. Chances are a person won’t care about a vast majority of things. Taking the time to express your dismay over them is going to take a while.
I don’t care about sports in general, but I truly don’t care in the least about soccer.
Of course, if they played with the dismembered head of a vanquished enemy like in the old days, I might develop an interest
yep, I have zero interest
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