The FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025 is set to feature a host of innovations. Just like men's football, youth football has also incorporated technology. Yes! We're talking about VAR and goal-line technology in the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2025. Technology has been leveraged to ensure fair and transparent play and precise and perfect decision-making. This marks the beginning of a new era in football, and it will only continue to improve in the future. Both VAR and goal-line technology prove to be very useful in football. Also known as Video Assistant Referee, VAR is a simplified version of Football Video Support (FVS). It's a digital referee that provides clarity to the original referee's decisions through video. It can even capture close-ups, even minor mistakes. Similarly, goal-line technology is a sensor system that provides clear indications of whether a goal was scored or not. So, there's no need to worry about whether a goal was scored or not.
In today's blog post, we'll discuss VAR and goal-line technology for FIFA U17. We'll explore how the advent of technology has sparked a new revolution in football.
Evolution of Refereeing Technology in Youth Football
Traditional VAR was initially used for senior men's football tournaments. Its results were quite accurate. Then, as time progressed, FIFA started using VAR for its other tournament formats, too, to maintain accuracy and transparency in the results.
For this reason, Video Assistant Referee decisions will be used in the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as well. But there is a slight difference between the VAR used in this and the VAR used in other formats. Because the decision of traditional VAR took some time to come, due to which the flow of the game was disrupted midway. Therefore, to overcome this problem, FIFA developed a new and simplified VAR, which will be used exclusively for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, i.e., for youth football. This VAR is called the Football Video Support (FVS) system. And it is very fast and accurate.
The special thing about FVS is that it takes decisions very fast, due to which there is no delay in the game and the flow is maintained. In addition, its accuracy is also as accurate as traditional VAR. The result makes the game very fair. This feature helps the referee to take the right decision without any interruption.
Now, one more new thing has been added to FIFA along with FVS, and that is AI-assisted refereeing tools. These tools are very helpful; through this, real-time data and analysis are given to the referee, which makes it easier to make decisions. This includes offside detection, foul intensity, ball tracking, etc. Now it would not be wrong to say that in the coming time, or from next year itself, FIFA will fully implement technology.
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