The Club World Championship experiences new football rules. Referees with Bodycam to show their point of view, VAR ads to the public and changes decided by FIFA to the football game regulation
The 32 -team club world championship wanted by FIFA is not just a tournament that starts with the aim of becoming a fixed appointment in the calendars of international football. In the United States, the leaders of Zurich, on the push of President Infantino, brought one series of technological and regulatory novelties that ferry football into the future. Both regulatory and equipment interventions, with an eye aimed at involving the public present in the stadiums or connected by home.
It is a series of experiments that find their synthesis point in the Club World Championship. On some, the IFAB (the body that changes the rules of the game once a year) had been working for several seasons. Others have become possible from the progress of technology.
Club World Cup, what the referees bodycams are
First news, immediately visible by viewers, The referees summoned by FIFA for the Club 2025 World Cup are equipped with Bodycam. It is a camera positioned at the headset of the right ear of the race directors who will have a dual goal: the first is to discourage non -consumed behaviors of players and staff against whistles -everything is recorded -, the second is to offer the world television public a new vision of the game.
Bodycams are in fact connected through a 5G network to the control room and then the images also distributed to the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Exclusive Global Broadcaster Dazn to be able to convey them to the public. ATTENTION: At this stage not everything can be seen. For example, for understandable reasons, the images of the most controversial episodes of the match in which the referee had to opt for a decision (rigor, expulsion or other) that may have produced discussion on the field are not made available.
Club World Championships, the referees announce the vari decisions
Speaking of the VAR, the world championship for Club 2025 in the United States is now seen continuously one of the innovations included in the last part of the season also in European competitions. The referees referred to in the VAR for a review, before notifying it to the players explain it to all the public, present or virtual, through a microphone.
It is not an absolute novelty in sports, since other disciplines have been accustomed to “speaking” referees for years (just think of Basket Rugby or American football), but Fifa believes that it can be an important step forward towards clarity, transparency and involvement of the fans. In Italy it was foreseen by the semifinals of the Italian Cup, but the latest challenges have never recorded episodes from VAR who needed explanation.
Confirmed, however, the practice of publish the reason for a revision on the maxi screams of the stadiums In progress so as to make it clear to those present the reason for a moment of stop in the game.
Club world championship, the semi -automatic offside enhanced by artificial intelligence
The field also entered theArtificial intelligence with the aim of helping semi -automatic offside to be faster and more precise in reports. It will happen thanks to an increased number of dedicated cameras and the presence of a sensor positioned inside the ball.
The cameras (16) and the sensor will be cameras connected to the artificial intelligence that will rework the data faster and then send an audio message to the assistant to report the offside position of a player who comes into contact with the ball.
Goalkeepers, new rule: Maximum retained ball for 8 seconds
Changes life also for goalkeepers who they can hold the ball before relaunching it, or playing it to a partner, at most for 8 seconds. After this term, the action stops to resume with a corner kick in favor of the opposing team. Tested for months in the minor and youth series (also in Italy), it has the aim of reducing dead moments and promoting a higher actual time.
The paradox is that the old rule was, on paper, more stringent: maximum limit 6 seconds and, in the event of an infringement, punishment. In fact, however, it was never respected. Hence the decision to soften it but ask for zero tolerance.
