Arab Cup: Qatar starts with victory at WM from Willie Schuppe's blog

Host Qatar has successfully started in the Arab Cup. The future World Cup host defeated Bahrain with 1: 0 (0: 0). Abdulaziz Hakim (69.) achieved the decisive match.

At the Arab Cup, 16 teams measure themselves, it is the follow-up tournament of the Arab National Cup, held from 1963 to 2012.

At the same time, the tournament serves as a substitute for the purchased Confederation Cup and thus as a dress rehearsal for the World Cup in the Desert State (21 November to 18 December 2022). The game is played in six of the eight World Cup stadiums.

The World Association FIFA also tests a new semi-automatic outstanding technology at the Arab Cup. With the tournament again after a long break in Qatar (until 18 December), artificial intelligence in direct exchange with the video assistant should be determined when a player is in line with.

Pearling Collins, head of the FIFA referee commission, spoke of the most important test of the newly developed technology. Special cameras among the stadium roofs automatically provide tracking data to the video assistants, which can check appropriate situations on special ways.

The technology is very useful for both the game preparation and decision-making, said Collins: In case of offside situations, the decision will be made after not only the position of the players, but they have been analyzed by their participation in the turn The final decision remains in the hand of the referee.

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