Soccer could learn from hockey's video umpire system

LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Hockey may enjoy only a fraction of soccer's wealth and glamour yet the sport's governing body believes it could teach its bigger cousin a few things about the use of technology.

Hockey uses the challenge system where a team can ask for a review if they believe a decision is wrong. If the video umpire agrees, they keep their right to a challenge; if not, they lose it for the rest of the game. Replays of the incident are shown to the crowd and conversation between umpiring officials is broadcast to the public - which does not happen in soccer."Sometimes football should listen to what other sports do, and not only hockey," Weil, a former FIFA marketing director, told a small group of reporters."Every single player on the field of play is monitored so the coach can take players off and bring them on based on their physical condition," he said.

One idea he would like to implement is to place a light inside the ball which makes it glow and extinguishes when time is up."It is the kind of thing we need to bring to the sport," he said.

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