{"id":19714,"date":"2013-04-04T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19714"},"modified":"2013-04-04T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:11:38","slug":"so-yet-again-the-english-have-lost-a-football-shoot-out-against-the-germans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/so-yet-again-the-english-have-lost-a-football-shoot-out-against-the-germans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So yet again the English have lost a football shoot-out against the Germans&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Register<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/04\/04\/football_goal_line_tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Leyden<\/a> takes a predictable line after the international governing body for soccer went with a German firm&#8217;s product over an English competitor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The GoalControl-4D system features 14 high-speed cameras around a football pitch focused on both goal mouths to help match officials determine whether or not the ball has crossed the goal-line.<\/p>\n<p>The ball\u2019s position is continuously and automatically captured in three dimensions when it is close to the goal, GoalControl explains. If the ball has passed the goal line, the system&#8217;s CPU sends an encrypted radio signal to the referee\u2019s watch in less than one second.<\/p>\n<p>GoalControl offers the possibility of providing replays as well as the ability to be installed within existing goal frames and nets, without needing hi-tech additions to the match balls themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The technology will be put through its paces at the upcoming Confederations Cup in Brazil. If trials progress as planned the technology will be deployed at next year&#8217;s eagerly anticipated tournament.<\/p>\n<p>GoalControl (which sounds like US commentator-speak for a goalkeeper) was picked ahead of three other FIFA-licensed technology providers, including British firm Hawkeye. So yet again the English have lost a football shoot-out against the Germans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register&#8216;s John Leyden takes a predictable line after the international governing body for soccer went with a German firm&#8217;s product over an English competitor: The GoalControl-4D system features 14 high-speed cameras around a football pitch focused on both goal mouths to help match officials determine whether or not the ball has crossed the goal-line. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[659,882,401],"class_list":["post-19714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","category-technology","tag-brazil","tag-fifa","tag-worldcup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-57Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19715,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions\/19715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}