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One of these days there will be video replay in soccer.
It's already available to all of us in our homes, making it a question of when, not if, video will come onto the playing field.
Everyone involved in soccer needs to find out exactly what replay might be able to accomplish. Even more important, a full-fledged test of a system would also help to determine exactly how disruptive to the game's flow it might be. Until we try it, no one really knows.
Therefore, wouldn't it be nice to see Major League Soccer take a leading role and offer itself to FIFA and the International Board as guinea pigs to sort out the good and bad about introducing modern technology into the grand old game?
North America, after all, is a perfect place to try to things out. Our fans are used to replay in football, hockey and basketball. Our spectators are also used to games stopping and starting.
MLS should show the world how it works
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- Public Discussion (6)
Well, I'm an American and I'm not sure I support the ideas proposed here. I'm skeptical of stopping play in soccer to review video, it will ruin the flow and rhythm of the game.
I like the idea of having the fourth official note questionable card calls and non-card calls and then reviewing the video of them after the game with all of the officials but I wonder how the video review of penalties would work? How long do you stop play? Are penalties carded by the on-field official the only ones to be reviewed or is it to be every time two opposing players touch each other in the area to be review?
And review every goal and dis-allowed goal? Really? So after every goal we must stop and wait for a review official to declare it legitimate? When is play stopped for video review of a questionable goal? Often a goalkeeper appears to save a goal and then play continues, when does the official stop play for video review and how is play then re-started if there was no goal?
It's easy to just say MLS should be a test market for video review in soccer but things have to be better thought out before it is implemented.
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#1 - Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:54 AM ESTI'm with you Mydree. I think the flow of the game could easily be ruined. This sort of technology should only be used in limited amounts. I could definitely see the benefits of having goal line technology when there is a dispute about if the ball actually crossed the line. Other than that is there much need for video replays? Are they proposing video replays everytime a player takes a dive.....I hope not or the game will take all day.
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#2 - Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:05 PM ESTsoccer? americans don't give a crap about Major League Soccer. It's barely on the radar, and for it to be the top level of it's sport and barely beat out Arena Football ratings is pretty sad.
not to mention that the US was ranked 5th going in the World Cup and has now fallen to 31 ... I don't think America is where soccer officials will get a quality test.
#3 - Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:16 PM ESTno video replay. what? are the coaches going to throw a "challenge flag" on the field or something? Keep the game pure, yes mistakes happpen but it's part of the beauty of the game. it's worked fine this way since the 1860s, technology doesn't have a place in every nook ande cranny.
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#4 - Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:25 PM ESTI am a soccer referee in Florida, and if I remember correctly FIFA already discussed this very topic. They decided that they wanted the sport to have a human element. As a referee, I could imagine referee's feeling undermined by a video replay system. I personally don't think video replay has a place in soccer.
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#5 - Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:25 PM ESTVideo Replays will kill the game at all levels, not to mention most leagues in Europe have 3 or 4 divisions that won't be able to afford the system which is certainly not going to be purchased by Fifa.
Referee's decisions can go either way and during the course of a season, each team will have had bad decisions give against them and for them, it's karma, it always comes around.
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