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FIFA Will Reconsider Video Replay Tech After Past Weekend’s Ref Debacles

by Robert Quigley | 9:08 am, June 29th

Contested ref calls are a part of the game, but this past Sunday, soccer fans watching the World Cup were treated to two major displays of referees’ incompetence: First, when England played Germany, England was down 2-1 when they got the ball into the goal, as seen in the above picture — but because the ball bounced out before the referee ‘saw’ it, they didn’t get the goal. Arguably, had they finished the first half tied 2-2, they might have played the second half differently and not lost 1-4. That afternoon, when Argentina played Mexico, Carlos Tevez scored Argentina’s first goal when he was wildly offsides (see below), but the ref didn’t overturn it. Argentina went on to win 3-1.

Now, FIFA president and arch-traditionalist Sepp Blatter has announced his plans to reconsider the tech solution that had long been out of the question for him: Video replays.

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Google’s Nifty World Cup Easter Egg

by Robert Quigley | 9:00 am, June 8th


The 2010 FIFA World Cup doesn’t officially kick off until Friday, June 11th, but it looks like Google is already ramping up for the games. If you search for the phrase ‘world cup’ on Google, in addition to returning a schedule of upcoming mascots and a notice as to which teams are playing in which groups, the usual “Goooooooooogle” at the bottom of the page is replaced with a more soccer-friendly “Gooooooooooal!”

But ‘World cup’ isn’t the only search that reveals this small Easter egg:

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Hyundai’s Grassy World Cup Car Puts Swamp Thing to Shame

by Robert Quigley | 1:40 pm, May 25th

Hyundai is the official auto sponsor of FIFA, and in honor of this year’s World Cup in South Africa, they’ve whipped up two special-edition i10s, covered with turf and sporting gigantic soccer balls on top and on the wheels. Not sure about how we feel about the roof soccer ball, but the grassy exterior is pretty cool.

The cars will be touring South Africa when the World Cup events kick off on June 11th.

More pics below:

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