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Tech Innovations to Take Centre Stage at Club World Cup
- Chelsea will travel to the USA to compete in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, facing Leon, Flamengo, and ES Tunis in their group stage matches.
- The tournament follows concerns about scheduling, as its final occurs five weeks before the 2025/26 Premier League season, raising questions about player burnout.
- John Terry, a former Chelsea defender who won the 2012 Champions League, believes the competition offers financial incentives and opportunities for fringe players, emphasizing careful game time management.
- FIFA will introduce referees wearing body cameras and deploy an advanced semi-automated offside technology combining AI and sensors to expedite decisions while retaining VAR oversight.
- The tournament’s expansion to 32 teams and technological innovations position it as a major testing ground, highlighting both sporting and commercial significance for participating clubs.
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The club world championship in the USA is the prestigious project of FIFA boss Gianni Infantino. For the new tournament, the World Federation makes a lot possible. Among other things, the VAR mission is supposed to be a novelty. But this is highly explosive.
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hbl.fiDuring the club World Cup played in the USA this summer, new techniques and new equipment will be tested, Fifa said.
This Friday, FIFA announced several innovations for the World Club Championship, which will start on June 14.
Mexico City.- The Club World Cup will be the first FIFA competition in which technology and digitization will play a key role. Arbitrators will carry cameras to improve the viewer's experience, teams will have tablets to digitally manage substitutions, attendees will be able to see on screens the same as the whistle when going to the VAR, while they will be sent to the real-time central automated alerts in case of out of play.
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