Five refs, but...

[san.livejournal.com]

Five-ref plan needs fast action: Valcke
Graham Dunbar October 13, 2010 - 5:34AM
AP

Soccer's experimental five-referees system needs fast-track approval next year to be ready for the 2014 World Cup, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said on Tuesday.

Valcke told The Associated Press that elite referees will begin FIFA's three-year training program in 2011 for the tournament in Brazil, and each must start working with a regular team of either two or four assistants.

"If we want to be on time for the 2014 World Cup it means that the decision should be made by the end of this season," Valcke said in an interview.

He believes FIFA's rule-making panel could decide the issue next June, although worldwide trials are scheduled to run in competitions including the European Champions League for two more years.

The five-officials system places an extra assistant beside each goal to advise the referee.

Raising standards of refereeing became a priority for FIFA and its president Sepp Blatter after a series of mistakes affected some 2010 World Cup matches in South Africa - and a high-profile qualification playoff between France and Ireland - bringing pressure on the governing body to act.

"In 2014, something has to be changed. We have only one goal following what has happened at the (2010) World Cup and that is to make sure we give as much support as we can to the referees," Valcke said.

Blatter's personal project is preparing a new generation of younger professional referees, and he relaxed his long-term defence of human error in on-field decisions by reopening the debate on using technology for goal-line rulings.

FIFA also is monitoring five-official trials which started in last season's second-tier Europa League competition and are intended to continue through June 2012 in national competitions in Brazil, France and Mexico.

However, Valcke said on Tuesday that the next World Cup needs a decision before the trials end.

"We have to train referees. You can't just add two additional assistant referees in 12 months, they have to work together," he said.

The decision rests with the panel known as the International Football Association Board (IFAB) [lololol iFab. Idk that's just my sense of humour], comprising FIFA officials plus leaders of the associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Valcke will join IFAB in Newport, Wales, next week to assess the trials, review 13 proposed goal-line technology systems and start setting the agenda for its annual meeting in March which has power to change the laws of football.

Valcke said match officials need to be working in teams of five at the traditional World Cup test event, the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil, plus other elite competitions to prepare for intense scrutiny of their decisions at football's showpiece event.

"At the World Cup you have only 64 games so you can't have a single mistake. It has to be the best referees in the world."

[saws]

alifjalskdmlscvmasd *facepalm* :|
This had so better work, FIFA. THIS HAD SO BETTER WORK.

Anyway, thoughts? That a fifth ref will cut it, or that Sepp Blatter should retire goal-line tech is still needed, etc.?

Comments

[leinyan.livejournal.com]

lol goal line tech would eliminate any doubt though and we wouldn't need trials lasting years to see if it works or not.

[san.livejournal.com]

This, so much! :|

[stolen-skylines.livejournal.com]

ikr? seriously, FIFA.

[verses.livejournal.com]

Your logic does not work on old stubborn men

[leinyan.livejournal.com]

nothing will work on this guy ):

[genbu-no-miko24.livejournal.com]

yeah they already using something similar in baseball

[lovelyeli.livejournal.com]

and in fucking TENNIS too


i mean it seems like all other sports around the world have advanced and kept up to today's technology to make games more fair&enjoyable. It's sad that the WORLD sport can't get behind it:/

[genbu-no-miko24.livejournal.com]

well when you have old geezer they get stubborn especially sepp blah blah

[leinyan.livejournal.com]

idk about baseball but it seems like most other sports have introduced some kind of technology for a variety of things and I can't understand why the biggest sport of them all isn't leading the way.

[genbu-no-miko24.livejournal.com]

well my dad said that in baseball they introduced some sort of technology for the homebase only so far. His words, not mine. It was last week.

[leinyan.livejournal.com]

idk what home base is ): but some technology is better than none :/

guess I'll google it later

[meiliguniang.livejournal.com]

They need goal-line technology. Unless they have a referee standing inside the goal, sometimes referees just don't cut it--especially if there are a ton of bodies around the goal to make things even more confusing.

Case in point: Iceland's first goal today against Portugal.

[scoli727.livejournal.com]

Lol, Blatter. He's defensive of human error but Valcke says "you can't have a single mistake." Conflict much, FIFA?


You tell 'em, Harry.

[nomprenom.livejournal.com]

Sepp Blatter, you cheap bastard.

Offside and goal line tech, for the love of god, u don't have to train 2 extra refs! Put the existing ones in a booth with a computer and tell them to learn how to watch a video PLUS the video is already invented so u don't have to crack your brain.

[scoli727.livejournal.com]

[skipcalledmebro.livejournal.com]

I think goal-line technology would help improve the reputation of the game, especially at an international level.
That being said, I think its the only instance where technology should be used in determining a call or the outcome of a game.

In the meantime, I really hope that the fifth referee will help clear up issues surrounding goals.

[tamings.livejournal.com]

jfc just give us the damn goal line technology and this wouldn't be an issue

[secondstar.livejournal.com]

IA FFS they need to work this shit out.

[verses.livejournal.com]

The fact that no one has definitively determined whether the Iceland goal was in or not is in itself cause for goal-line tech. Nobody can figure it out even from VIDEO.

[wall-upper.livejournal.com]

blatter you dinosaur just retire already

[speirmint.livejournal.com]

idk, i'm against the goal-line tech. i mean, really?
it just feels ... wrong.

[secondstar.livejournal.com]

spiiiiiers.

IDK I like that tech isn't used during matches but things need to be dealt with.

[tasari.livejournal.com]

I'd rather have five refs than goal-line tech, TBH. Call it personal bias, there's no real reason to be against it other than that's the way it's always been.

[http://users.livejournal.com/---combatbaby/]

for fucks sake, how hard is it to just put a few cameras in key places?? Instead of paying ONCE for some equipment, they're going to hire more refs and pay more salary CONTINUOUSLY?

Logic, guys....logic.