As massive as the 2014 FIFA World Cup was, 2014’s largest sports event also played host to the year’s most exciting technological introduction. And for once, soccer’s most important technological advancement had nothing to do with how to lighten a boot, how to magically spray down an injury, or how to more effectively sell beer, gambling, […]
Image via www.priv.gc.ca Franz Beckenbaur, the President of the German football team FC Bayern Munich, recently expressed his belief that the increase in technology usage throughout football will eventually result in referees being replaced by drones. Bundesliga, the German league in which Bayern plays, recently approved using goal-line technology after observing its success in the […]
Unlike other sports, soccer has taken some convincing to adjust to the technological times we live in. Where other sports benefit from using instant replay, it is still frowned upon in soccer. Goal-line technology began in the same way. Critics were outspoken against it whereas players were begging for it. Countless examples of ghost goals […]
