Arsene Wenger, director of development of FIFA world football, announced that in the 2022 World Cup there will be a revolution with the implementation of automated offside.

"There is a strong possibility that the detection of offside will be 'automated' in 2022," the former Arsenal coach said during a press conference in Paris. Without revealing the details of such technological progress.

"I am committed to secrecy, but it will be the next major development in arbitration" he explained.

While sometimes offside decisions are now made with the help of the VAR, with the referees in front of screens, Mr Wenger says football can move faster due to the intervention of technology to resolve disputed phases.

A change that was already in the plans by the World Federation (FIFA), which announced in June 2020 that it would introduce "and develop semi-automatic offside technology to provide the VAR with additional information to simplify refereeing," helping to optimize image resolution ", in an effort to make football more attractive.

Regarding his proposal for the World Cup every two years, Arsene Wenger explained "that you need to be open" and "understand the reluctance, because there is an emotional aspect" around this tournament, which is historically organized every four years.

"The reform I am proposing is part of a calendar reform. "I want to reduce the number of qualifiers," he said.

"If prestige is linked to the distance between events, it would be necessary to host the World Cup every eight years," Alsatian  added, confirming that, "we could have a big event every year", the World Cup alternating with continental tournaments like the Euro or the Copa America.

A full report will be released by FIFA in November, ahead of a "world summit" by the end of the year, which could decide on this reform…