FIFA President, Sepp Blatter decides to finalise the integration of Goal-Line Technology

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How many times have fans seen legitimate goals waived and controversial goals counted by linesmen and referees alike; too many times. This is why it does not come as a surprise as FIFA has publicised that the much-awaited World Cup in Brazil will feature goal-line technology. In addition to that, bidders have been invited to present their programs before the CONFED Cup starts in the summer.

Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, was known to be a lover of such technology. Thus, during the Club World Cup last year, they tried the program and saw success. That’s why he would want to finally implement said technology starting from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The FIFA president expressed his delight at seeing success in what was the first time he allowed goal-line technology. When he was interviewed, he stated his plans of finalizing the use of the technology before the CONFED Cup and the World Cup so as to see how good it will be for the players, the fans and the officials alike. However, there are a lot of people that have expressed their thoughts on the matter negatively but still Pres. Blatter stands firm on his decision earlier in the year.

The goal-line technology that Sepp Blatter wants to integrate in football is primarily intended to help the linesmen and referees during the course of the game. Furthermore, it somehow helps both teams because the eyes of the fans across the globe have realised that there are some instances when human error is costly.

On the other hand, this shows some kind of disrespect to the legacy of football. The past has seen the skills of officials in deciding whether or not to give a foul or not, let alone allow or disallow a goal but Sepp Blatter has seen and has hear enough of this shenanigans and imposes upon world football to use goal-line technology.

 

Damning report about FIFA welcomed by Sepp Blatter

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Sepp Blatter is a man that has made enough bizarre statements to last anyone a lifetime but yesterday, his statement of approval that a Swiss court had a document about FIFA and the bribing situation, was merely incredible. It seems that the president of FIFA was simply happy that after years of pressure everyone was finally able to see just how much greed, corruption, and self-interest has plagued FIFA over the last few years.

The document was simply shocking as well as being damaging to the organisation as it clearly showed that FIFA has not been helping football out at all. Throughout the document were plenty of allegations that were substantial about how FIFA senior members Ricardo Teixeira and Joao Havelange have walked away with more than £14m in bribes over the past eight years from a marketing company that wanted the rights to broadcast the matches.

Sepp Blatter defiant in the face of football storm

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Sepp Blatter defiant in the face of football storm Sepp Blatter was cleared of any wrong doing by the FIFA world ruling body allowing him to run unopposed for the presidency in Wednesday’s election. The only challenger, Mohamed Bin Hammam, stood down amidst corruption allegations.

Bin Hammam as well as executive committee member Jack Warner received suspensions for all activity related to football after the ethics committee of FIFA said they would launch a full blown inquiry into the allegations of bribery made against the two.

The group agreed to investigate claims that financial incentives were offered to Caribbean Football Union (CFU) members. Both deny the allegations and Bin Hammam said earlier he rescinded his candidacy saying he did not want FIFA’s name to be dragged through the mud.

The ethics committee ruled in favor of Mr. Blatter by saying there was no need to investigate the present President who Bin Hammam accused of knowing about the alleged payments to CFU members.

The two Mr. Warner and Mr. Bin Hammam are accused of trying to bribe members with bags of cash that totaled £24,000 for each member of the CFU members in Trinidad. These alleged payments were to secure votes for Bin Hammam’s presidential election campaign.

The ethnics committee was presided over by Namibian judge Petrus Damaseb who told a news conference that Bin Hammam was provisionally banned from participating in an football activity until the ethics committee of FIFA take a final decision and the same for Mr. Jack Warner, also suspended pending further inquiry were Jason Sylvester and Debbie Minguell, CFU officials that are alleged to have handed over the bundles of cash.

New goal line technology delayed

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New goal line technology delayed Sepp Blatter might have indicated that football goal line technology will be debated in Wales at a football law makers meeting, but it now seems that the subject will not be discussed until October.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) technical sub-committee is due to meet on Wednesday but plans to only discuss one thing that was agreed to be on the table back in May.

Thus, the debate about the new technology will not take place until autumn.

A spokesman for the FIFA told reporters that this week will be focused on ratifying requests that have come about as a result of the assistant referees’ experiment which was started last year within the Euopra League.  The spokesman added that the formal meeting will take place in October.

In March the IFAB first rejected the idea sating that it would be too disruptive and expensive to introduce.

However, after a series of high profile incidents that occurred at the World Cup finals, the matter was once again brought to the centre of attention.  One of these events was a goal made by Frank Lampard in the game against Germany that was wrongly disallowed.

The president of FIFA had made comments that implied the debate would happen during this week even though it is now apparent that it has been pushed back.  During the World Cup, Blatter stated that it would be silly not to discuss the allowance of technology at the FA Board meeting in July.