FIFA announced earlier today that goal line technology will be introduced during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The introduction comes in the wake of FIFA trying several different methods to fix the problem of shots crossing the goal line without being given as goals.
FIFA’s initial reluctance to use the technology was based on the notion that everyone should be able to play the same game of soccer, no matter what the level.
Basically, if 10-year olds couldn’t get goal line technology at their games, no one could have it.
Ask Frank Lampard and the English national team how they feel about that one.
FIFA has already licensed two companies for use in last year’s World Club Cup — Hawkeye and Goalref — and those two are expected to be the front runners for the World Cup contract.
Goal line technology has been coming for awhile now, but to see it for the first time at the World Cup will be a sight for sore eyes.
The notion that technology couldn’t be introduced because youth players weren’t able to use it was simply ridiculous.
Games at the professional level hold more significance than just a regular came on Sunday morning. These players are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a week, they should have everything at their disposal to improve the quality of the game.