Goal Line Technology Tests Continue

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has announced that tests on various goal-line technology systems will continue for another year, with the possibility of using the technology at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

According to Jerome Valcke, the governing body’s secretary general, only two companies have come close to meeting FIFA’s standards in relation to the technology.

Valcke said: ‘Even as an empty goal, just throwing the ball through to the goal, only two companies reached 98% and 94%. There’s not one company who has reached 100%. It means that either it’s a technical problem, or it’s not good enough to be used for a 90-minute game. That’s where we have to be very careful’.

FIFA however, are calling for 100% accuracy, and remained unconvinced following the testing of ten systems in Zurich last month.