FIFA wants to equip players with activity sensors

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Yes, today we will talk about football, not to mention Neymar and PSG. At a time when activity trackers are worn by many amateur athletes, why not make it benefit professional sportsmen? This is the question that FIFA asks that allow the wearing of these trackers to professional players during games.

Most clubs already equip their players with this kind of smart health connected equipment but only during training. FIFA and IFAB, charged to create and apply the rules of football, want to impose an electronic equipment standard for performance analysis and health purposes.

So, they want the players to wear bracelets and bib to receive information in real time, heart rate, distance traveled, speed, fatigue, balls struck etc …

The big problem that will arise is to know who will hold this data and who will have access to it? Most players regularly change clubs, at the mercy of the money (no, most are passionate at first) and so you have to know what becomes of previously recorded data. Will they also to be transferred to the next club where will they be deleted ?

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Obviously, the equipment used must be very effective. Even though most consumer equipment is good like ZEPP Play, they sometimes do some mistakes. Such incidents are not necessarily a problem for an individual, but for FIFA clubs bet very big on their players and can not afford to have wrong statistics.

Lukas Brud, secretary of IFAB admits having some reservations on this novelty that FIFA hopes. He believes that a player's ability to excel in the field does not lie solely in his health statistics and its physical performance. He adds that "if the data says you're bad but you put more goals than anyone, then how do you want to judge the performance of a player?". An interesting application could be see player stats in real time during a match, for the pleasure of viewers.

Whatever the outcome of this debate, we must recognize that FIFA and the other sports committees are finally aware the potential of modern and mainstream technology in high level sport. Today's sports performances have never been so excellent and the development of ever more advanced materials and equipment will not slow this trend.

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