Help for VAR! Semi-automatic offside, a reality for LaLiga

The technology has gone advancing in the increasingly fast football from the implantation of the VAR in the World-wide of Russia 2018. The sport continues giving steps forward in search to have the justest arbitration possible for his parties taking advantage of the technological innovation that allows that it go finishing little by little this controversy that is used to to exist in each party, especially in the Spanish football.

One of the key appearances in the development of all football match is definitely the rule of the offside. An essential situation of the game, since necessarily always involves a self-evident occasion of goal. Thus the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) seems decided to offer a tool more to the arbitration and thus it has reopened the contest to find provider of VAR for the next four seasons, service that, besides, will include the new advance of the semi-automatic detection of the offside (SAOT).

"It is will of the RFEF follow keeping the service of assistance to the arbitration by means of video, incorporating to this system the technology of semi-automatic detection of the offside (SAOT)", begins saying the Federation in a communiqué published this Thursday. "This technology already is present in some of the best competitions of football to European and world-wide level, since it has showed a very significant improvement in the assessment of the played of offside and in the reduction of the time for the taking of decisions on this question, contributing credibility and reliability to these", adds.

The RFEF yes has decided can step to forward

The reality is that the RFEF already took out to contest this subject the past month of April, but Mediapro reported it in front of the justice and the process remained stopped. Then, LaLiga and the Federation agreed to extend the agreement of Hawk-Eye, provider the last five years, for the present season. The instauration of the offside semi-automatic was one of the key points of the referee's subject by which LaLiga and the RFEF have contested so much. In summer arrived to the agreement to establish the tool, initially for this campaign, but the problems of the contest of the VAR avoided it, although when seeming no longer will have gone back backwards.

In principle it would mean an important advance since unlike other systems of detection of offside, the SAOT uses a system of detection of extremities called 'limb-tracking' that allows to detect the 29 corporal points with which can mark goal until 50 times by second. For this, needs a number from among 10 and 12 installed cameras along the cover of the stadium, between which do not explain the used for the television transmission.