[OFFICIAL] FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil Thread

Swordsman

Swordsman

Banned
Joined
Jan 27, 2002
Messages
92,505
Reaction score
2,475
kendoarts said:
I have no choice. I'm a Oranje supporter when it comes to Euro, and ever since, it's in my blood that Argentina and Holland excel.

Let's hope the Oranje do themselves some good before their coach leave for Man Utd for good.

Back to Messi, I agree. But like Batistuta, you don't really have to win World Cup to be known as a legend.

Till today, the Latins are still chanting Batigol when it comes to remembering World Cup.
Click to expand...

messi had to labelled together with johan cruyff as the best player who never won the world cup. :s13:

Zico, the late Eusebio, Lev Yashin, Ferenc Puskas, Sir Stanley Matthew are in the list also.

i feel that the golden age of holland has long passed..

that time got bergkamp, kluiert, de boer brothers, overmars, edgar davids also can't win world cup.

their best chance is 2010 world cup, but robben screwed up.
 
Last edited:
kendoarts

kendoarts

Master Member
Joined
May 12, 2008
Messages
3,156
Reaction score
1
Swordsman said:
messi had to labelled together with johan cruyff as the best player who never won the world cup. :s13:

Zico, the late Eusebio, Lev Yashin, Ferenc Puskas, Sir Stanley Matthew are in the list also.

i feel that the golden age of holland has long passed..

that time got bergkamp, kluiert, de boer brothers, overmars, edgar davids also can't win world cup.

their best chance is 2010 world cup, but robben screwed up.
Click to expand...

Exactly. Those were the days. I missed it.
I remember the rivarly between Argentina vs Holland back then.
With Argentina having Batistuta, Ortega, Aimar, Veron, Heinze...The only issue with Argentina since the past is, their goalkeeper has always been the weakest link.

Who are you supporting this time round?
 
Swordsman

Swordsman

Banned
Joined
Jan 27, 2002
Messages
92,505
Reaction score
2,475
kendoarts said:
Exactly. Those were the days. I missed it.
I remember the rivarly between Argentina vs Holland back then.
With Argentina having Batistuta, Ortega, Aimar, Veron, Heinze...The only issue with Argentina since the past is, their goalkeeper has always been the weakest link.

Who are you supporting this time round?
Click to expand...

no one in particular.

whoever entertains me the most (keeping me awake) i support.

whoever makes me sleep i don't support.
 
kendoarts

kendoarts

Master Member
Joined
May 12, 2008
Messages
3,156
Reaction score
1
Swordsman said:
no one in particular.

whoever entertains me the most (keeping me awake) i support.

whoever makes me sleep i don't support.
Click to expand...

Prepare to sleep during Iran and some of Greece matches.

They play really boring football.
 
Swordsman

Swordsman

Banned
Joined
Jan 27, 2002
Messages
92,505
Reaction score
2,475
brazil has lost their samba magic.

holland last world cup don't really play attractive football.

left the germans ?
 
kendoarts

kendoarts

Master Member
Joined
May 12, 2008
Messages
3,156
Reaction score
1
Swordsman said:
brazil has lost their samba magic.

holland last world cup don't really play attractive football.

left the germans ?
Click to expand...

In any case, Football is just becoming too commercialized.
Plus the fact that this world cup feature a lot of Youth, so, I won't expect much.
 
kendoarts

kendoarts

Master Member
Joined
May 12, 2008
Messages
3,156
Reaction score
1
Source: ‘Perfect’ goal-line technology in place for World Cup

RIO DE JANEIRO The man from the goal-line-technology company left no margin for error, which was probably a good thing given his line of work.

The man, a grey-haired German entrepreneur named Dirk Broichhausen, is the chief executive of GoalControl, and his company was selected in 2013 to install the system of cameras and software that during the next month will try to ensure, for the first time at a World Cup, that every goal scored has actually crossed the line, and that no ball near the line is incorrectly declared a goal if it has not.

But after a half-hour of questioning under the blistering sun at Maracanã Stadium about potential technical issues and weather concerns and even if the technology will in fact be in use for every game, Broichhausen had enough. Waving off the next question with a good-natured smile, he set the bar for success as high as he could: at perfection.

"Let's not talk about technical questions," he said confidently. "It will work perfect. Final word."

He can only hope so. Goal-line technology has been common in U.S. sports for years, but soccer has been slow to embrace it as an unneeded intrusion of technology into a human game. As recently as four years ago, Sepp Blatter, the head of soccer's governing body, FIFA, said that he was vehemently opposed to any technological aids for officiating games.

But an obvious mistake at the 2010 World Cup, when England's Frank Lampard was denied a goal against Germany, forced change on the sport.

"Although I'm German," the FIFA executive Johannes Holzmüller deadpanned as a clip of the Lampard shot played Monday, "I'll have to admit that the ball has probably crossed the line."

Spurred in part by that incident, the British-dominated body that oversees the laws of the game, the International Football Association Board, recommended in 2012 that FIFA experiment with the technology for possible use at the World Cup and other tournaments. That led to submissions by companies promoting various technologies — balls with chips in them or stickers on them, as well as light curtains and laser beams — and in 2013 FIFA chose GoalControl.

GoalControl's system works with a set of 14 cameras, with seven arrayed in a semicircle on the catwalks above watching each goal. The cameras capture up to 500 frames per second from multiple vantage points to track the continuous position of the ball within a centimetre or so. If it crosses the goal-line, digital watches worn by the referee, his two linesmen and the fourth official at midfield flash the word "GOAL" within a second.

Since being selected, GoalControl has installed the system in the 12 World Cup stadiums and conducted what it and FIFA said were about 2,400 tests — in wind, in rain, and with one or multiple cameras blocked by players or the goalkeeper. On Monday, they said that they had yet to have an incorrect decision.

The question remains if every game will be watched. FIFA and GoalControl acknowledged Monday that the final decision on whether to use the technology rested with the match referee.

All of the World Cup officials were given a demonstration of the system last week, which included a series of pregame tests to ensure the watches were registering the ball's position correctly. Those will take place at least an hour before each game.

"The referee decides if he would like to use it or not," Holzmüller said. "The point is, if he would say, 'I don't want to use it because I'm not sure if it's really working,' then, of course, both teams will be informed immediately. That means the players will be aware that the system is not in use."

A FIFA official said later that was unlikely, and that the news media would also be informed if the system was not in use. Asked about that possibility, Broichhausen guaranteed that the concern was not real, that the system would work, as he said, "perfect."

His confidence is not new; in an interview at the company's offices in Würselen, Germany, in April 2013, he predicted that the system could one day be used to judge everything from offside decisions to handballs.

But it could be years before the technology gains widespread installation. In the U.S., Major League Soccer has long advocated goal-line technology. But at a cost of about $500,000 per stadium to install a camera-based system — about $10 million for a 20-team league — it may take a while. For minor leagues and poorer countries, the system, while useful, could be cost prohibitive.

But to officials like Peter Walton, the former Premier League referee who now oversees training and assignments for the U.S. and Canada as the head of the Professional Referee Organization, it cannot happen soon enough.

"The reward or not for winning games are so immense nowadays that anything that will assist a referee in getting decisions correct has got to be looked at," Walton said. "The right decision has to be made."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Important Forum Advisory Note
This forum is moderated by volunteer moderators who will react only to members' feedback on posts. Moderators are not employees or representatives of HWZ Forums. Forum members and moderators are responsible for their own posts. Please refer to our Community Guidelines and Standards and Terms and Conditions for more information.
Top