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Qatar 2022: this is how the new VAR technology works, which will get to the World Cup

The FIFA Organizing Committee will implement SAOT technology in VAR to improve it for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Font: FIFA

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Qatar 2022, With this year’s World Cup approaching, and as qualified teams prepare to leave everything on the field for the greatest celebration of the king of sports on the planet, the organizing committee FIFA is also working to move away from the controversy that has plagued the institution since its inception: VAR (video assistant referee).

88 days from November 20, 2022, i.e. until the match between Qatar D Ecuador which will start the competition, UEFA is preparing a tool that complements the technology VAR and capable of semi-automatically determining forward positions.

SAOT, FIFA’s answer to VAR detractors

Because the VAR is not the holy devotion of the vast majority of football enthusiasts – and FIFA It was already clear to him that the technology, which had been in development since 2020, would finally be implemented. This system is named Semi-automatic offside technology system (SAOTfor its English abbreviation) and what it does is quite simple but effective: it is able to detect if a player is in an advanced position in the game where he is facing the opponent’s goal.

In this way, the organization hopes to try to address the shortcomings that the system still has. VAR in the performance of human resources.

FIFA Qatar 2022 VAR
With SAOT, players’ skeletons can be recreated, and thus technical and medical staff can watch the game through digital animation that allows them to change cameras and viewpoints. | Font: FIFA

How is VAR SAOT performing at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?

According to the report UEFA, SAOT “uses special cameras to track 29 points on each player’s body, allowing VAR teams to quickly and accurately pinpoint offside situations.”. The system was first tested in the European Super Cup match in which they played RealMadrid and Eintracht Frankfurt am Main.

The tool sends about 50 shots per second to each of the players on the field in order to more accurately analyze those involved in questionable games. Thus, these situations can be resolved in no more than 25 seconds. Except technology The limb detection it contains allows you to create 3D representations of the skeleton of each player during a match in real time.

Thus, the referees in charge of the VAR in the special room will be able to view the action in the match from a new angle. To deploy it during Qatar 2022, a total of 188 test controls have been held since 2020, including matches UEFA Champions League last season, playoffs UEFA Women’s Champions League and completion of the final stage UEFA Women’s Eurocup.

Same way SAOT will continue to be tested in the group stage Champions League 2022-2023 which starts on September 7th. Such a system is then expected to be used in conjunction with VAR during the World Cup, which will begin on November 20.

FIFA Qatar 2022
SAOT has already been tested at 188 sites with the intention of being ready for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Font: FIFA

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