By Kirk Miller After a successful trial run, FIFA announced it will use semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup. The football governing body is calling this tech a “support” tool for both video and on-field officials, allowing them to make more accurate offsides calls. This improvement on video assistant referee (VAR) technology, used in Russia in 2018 during the previous World Cup, uses 12 dedicated tracking cameras mounted underneath the roof of the stadium to track the ball and up to 29 data points of each individual player (50 times per second), calculating their exact posi…
