{"id":176914,"date":"2023-11-27T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/high-tech-soccer-ball-unveiled-for-euro-2024-promises-more-accurate-offside-decisions"},"modified":"2023-11-27T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:22:49","slug":"high-tech-soccer-ball-unveiled-for-euro-2024-promises-more-accurate-offside-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/high-tech-soccer-ball-unveiled-for-euro-2024-promises-more-accurate-offside-decisions","title":{"rendered":"High-tech soccer ball unveiled for Euro 2024 promises more accurate offside decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-tech-soccer-ball-unveiled-for-euro-2024-promises-more-accurate-offside-decisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A high-tech soccer ball that helps with more accurate offside decisions will make its European Championship debut next year in Germany after being <a href=\"https:\/\/news.adidas.com\/football\/adidas-reveals-the-first-fifa-world-cup--official-match-ball-featuring-connected-ball-technology\/s\/cccb7187-a67c-4166-b57d-2b28f1d36fa0\">used at the 2022 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/euro2024\/news\/0287-1976884bce43-5afb2e73f7af-1000--official-euro-2024-match-ball-unveiled\/\">European soocer governing body UEFA and manufacturer Adidas unveiled<\/a> the ball for Euro 2024 in Berlin on Wednesday. It is named \u201cFussballliebe,\u201d the German word for \u201clove of soccer,\u201d and will be used at next year\u2019s 51-game tournament from June 14-July 14.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a> fixed on a gyroscope inside the ball sends data 500 times per second to record the point at which it is kicked. The \u201ckick point\u201d helps match officials make offside decisions using multiple camera angles to create 3D visualizations that illustrate <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/player+movement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">player movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-tech soccer ball that helps with more accurate offside decisions will make its European Championship debut next year in Germany after being used at the 2022 World Cup. European soocer governing body UEFA and manufacturer Adidas unveiled the ball for Euro 2024 in Berlin on Wednesday. It is named \u201cFussballliebe,\u201d the German word for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}