The richest league in the world, the English Premier League, announced yesterday that in the current part of the season, referees made six wrong decisions, despite VAR technology.
Even in the derby between Arsenal and Manchester United, which the "devils" won 6:3 in the 1th round, but Gabriel Martinelli was denied a regular goal in the 12th minute. There will be fewer such mistakes in the future, if it is known that the rapper is Mundial, and that is solely thanks to the balls of "adidas", which performed their role at the World Cup in Qatar.
And the World Cup has always been a benchmark and a starting point for future changes, so if the recently concluded championship did not bring anything new in terms of tactics and other elements, it certainly did in the precision of certain decisions. This is thanks to the balls, Al Rila, and in the end, Al Hilm, which "adidas" made in cooperation with the technological company "Kinexon".
It took six years of work to get the balls to be played in Qatar certified. The ball contains two simultaneously working sensors with a total weight of 14 grams - ultra-broadband for accurate ball location data and online transmission, and a sensor that monitors the ball's position in three dimensions. The device is powered by a small battery.
According to adidas, the battery can be used actively for six hours. In idle mode, the battery is discharged in 18 days. The device is protected in a closed solid block and cannot be damaged while playing football. Each ball contact is recorded at 500 frames per second, and the data is immediately transmitted to a local positioning center. When the ball goes out of bounds and a new one is thrown in, the data is transferred to the center without the need for human intervention.
With that technology, it was proven that Cristiano Ronaldo was not the shooter against Uruguay, but Bruno Fernandes, and the ball detects offside perfectly, because the sensor uses 12 "Falcon's Eye" optical cameras around the field with 10 times the speed of determining the position compared to VAR. That's why not a single offside decision at the World Cup caused controversy. VAR depends on the human factor - millimeter accuracy lost all meaning if the VAR operator took the picture later or earlier than the transmission.
Statistically, the new ball will also help significantly, so based on the testing, it was concluded that the goal was scored from the correct distance, but it also provides data on the speed with which it moved when shooting for a goal. It makes it possible to monitor the accuracy of passing the ball in certain parts of matches between two teams. It was determined during the test of the Portuguese Championship game that the passing accuracy of one team increased by three percent during the game, while the other dropped by nine...
However, unlike testing balls in lower leagues or soccer academies, professionals were able to notice small differences compared to standard balls.
- It seems to me that when you hit it harder, it will fly longer, it is lighter. It took me time to get used to it, since my role is to pass the ball into the attacker's strike zone - said England midfielder Kieran Tripie.
The great goalkeeper of Uruguay, Sergio Rochet, also managed to feel the difference.
- The ball is faster, but it's like that every year. It's getting easier for the attackers, and it's getting harder for the goalkeepers - emphasized Rochet.
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