Innovation means every player being digitally scanned
Infantino: Move will ensure more accurate decisions
Every player at this summer’s World Cup will have their own physically accurate “AI avatar” that will be used in taking VAR decisions.
The innovation, which will involve every player being digitally scanned and leaves the possibility of size mattering in future offside calls, was part of a package of technological measures announced by Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, as he made a keynote appearance at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.
Infantino described the upcoming World Cup, with 104 matches due to played across the US, Canada and Mexico, as “the greatest show ever on planet Earth” and said the AI avatar would “ensure” that more accurate offside decisions would be made.
