By David Gold at the SPONSORs Sports Summit in Dusseldorf
May 19 – Wolfgang Niersbach (pictured), the general secretary of the German Football Federation (DFB), has hit out at FIFA over how long it is taking to introduce goal-line technology to determine whether a ball has crossed the line or not.
Speaking at the SPONSORs Sports Summit here, he said: “I think we have enough cameras in the stadiums.
“What should happen is to utilise technology so that we know if a goal is a goal or not, using a chip in the ball or something in the goalpost.
“In Sky’s coverage of ice hockey you can see it via video, I don’t know why FIFA is having such a problem with that.”
FIFA has indicated recently that it hopes to make use of goal-line technology, possibly within a year.
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