Big Brother at the Club World Cup! »FIFA made the decision and announced what was coming in June
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Tuesday, April 08, 2025 19:06 / Updated Tuesday, April 08, 2025 19:14
At the next World Club Championship, the new format introduced at the competition organized in the United States between June 14 and July, 2025, the referees will be equipped with video cameras. FIFA has also officially informed that a new rule will be tested for reducing time loss by the goalkeepers when resuming the game.
The XXL competition to which 32 teams will take part in all continents will be the test theater for a new experiment in world arbitration. They will be equipped at the US tour with body rooms, on the one hand, and will have, on the other hand, another means to force the goalkeepers to give up the usual time draws.
Those who lead the matches will carry “Body chambers within an experimental phase, the tests being approved by IFAB – the FIFA body that establishes and develops the rules of play”, explained the supreme football forum in a press release.
Collina: “We offer viewers a new experience”
For his part, the chairman of the FIFA referees commission, Italian Pierluigi Collina, explained the decision: “We believe that it is a good opportunity to give viewers a new experience, with images taken from a point of view that has never been offered before.
This is how the camera caught up like a helmet on the ear of the US club World Cup 2025
In addition to giving viewers a better perspective, The decision will also help them to better understand the decisions of the referees, “because it is important to be able to put yourself in the place of the referee during the information, to evaluate how he made decisions, his point of view, etc.”.
During the competition, the “whistle knights” will also apply the new rule approved by IFAB on March 1, meant to reduce the time lost by the goalkeepers. If they hold the ball in the hands for more than eight seconds, the central will whistle a corner. Previously, according to the old regulation, the referee could give an indirect free kick after six seconds.
The Premier League experienced camera in May 2024
It should be mentioned, however, that it is not a novelty in world football what will happen at the World Club Championship 2025. The premiere was on May 6, 2024, in the Premier League: referee Jarred Gillett wore a room during the Monday match between Crystal Palace and Manchester United.
Mounted on the head and connected to the ordinary communications system of the referee, it was first carried by an official in the first English league. According to the Daily Mail, the system was approved for experimental purposes by both clubs, by the International Football Association Board, by Professional Game Match officials Limited and by Premier League.
