La tecnologia del Mundial 2026 per dins: gespa temporal, VAR, fora de joc semiautomàtic i pilota connectada

This is more than just a game. Every four years, the Wildcarp takes over the globe. The globe. The globe. Entire cities transform themselves around the tournament with hundreds of millions watching. The 2021 6 FIFA World Cup is unlike any tournament we've ever seen. In this video we're taking you inside the venues, the equipment and the pets that this is where it should be placed, changing this tournament forever. We hopped on a flight over to the US and as soon as we arrived, the producer could not wait to show me what car he'd read it for the trip. Like it. We cut that's not right, we can't. It's not very football is it? I'm here in Los Angeles, California, checking out the So-Fly Stadium and this is one of 16 venues hosting the 2021 6-Wall Cup and it's definitely the coolest stadium I've ever seen because it's got a f***ing like what a start. Should we go and have a look inside? Obviously in the not too distant future, the USA is going to be playing its first game of the World Cup here. Yes. How are you feeling about that? We are ready. This stadium is big. You walk in and you can just sort of see the new screen right in front of you. It's

120 yards. It's bigger than a football field. Over 70,000 square feet double sided halo. We have speakers hidden inside the infinity screen that cover the whole stadium. That black that you see there is actually fabric behind it as old speakers and audio team that's supporting everything you hear in the stadium. With everything from NFL to Monster Jam being hosted here, it's Josh's team's responsibility to make the stadium experience one to remember. And I have to say, when I will turn for the first time,

The Infinity Display blew my mind. Imagine being sound better. A massive two-sided display with 80 million pixels flowing right there in the middle of the stadium. How does this thing work? I have to find out. So the Infinity screen is broken up into a bunch of nodes. And these are all servers that are apparently screened. 16 nodes all playing back video at the exact same time in sync that put their whole screen together. You can see those different nodes and how the screen is broken up. So if anyone of these fails, got the back up the switch over to if multiple nodes fail we have a whole entire backup system. And there is a graphic air which I assume is the roof. So the roof is also an LED screen. Yeah it is over 750,000 square feet. Big of screen in the world. 28,000 pixels which if you're flying in an airplane, great view and you get to see a photographic we put up there. And speaking of good views, what about that pitch? Especially with ticket prices being so damn high.

It turns out that creating a world cup widely pitched, so-fi stadium is no small feat. Because the permanent NFL's synthetic turf is too narrow for international football, engineers have literally built an entire new pitch right on top of it, raising the surface by almost three feet. And to create the extra width that FIFA demands, so-fi stadium is temporarily removed hundreds of its lower pitch level seats. Underneath is a high-tech drainage and narration system, followed by carefully leveled layers of sand. On top of that. almost 28,000 square feet of premium grass complete with a full irrigation sap. And because of the so-fi stadiums roof blocks natural UV light, LED grow lights bathe the pitch in a signature pink glow to keep the grass healthy. The grass itself is a special Kentucky blue grass and rye mix. It's grown in Washington and then shipped to LA in refrigerator trucks for installation. And this is the result.

One of the most advanced temporary pitches ever built for football's biggest stage. Watching football live from a screen is such a normal part of our lives that we don't even think about in these days. 100 years ago, if you wanted to live up dates on how a sporting match was going, you'd have to turn on the radio and hope that a man and a box of the microphone was doing a good enough job of explaining what was going on with his work. The first game to be televised live occurred in September 1937, and although this was a huge moment in broadcast history, it definitely wasn't 4K. In order they had the same number of camera angles that we used to enjoying these days. In 2026 we have the luxury of box lenses with incredible zoom, spider cameras that flip around the venue and even POV views from the referees themselves and this is all used to bring us all closer to the action. So what are the amazephering that's when we like during?

a live game. First of all, it's very loud. I mean, the best thing in the world is sitting here and you put something up on the screen and you hear 70,000 people cheer, respond, boo, or do whatever to whatever you put up there and it's like you're getting that live feedback that you know that they liked it. We're not. We have a replay team here. Watching him play, they're getting those those replays up there within second. Ah yes, replays, of course, one of the things that we all used to sell arguments. But more importantly, they used for officiating games to keep things fair. With 22 players on a football all moving around the picture at the same time, it's near impossible to see everything that's going on. So what do we do about that? Well, we use everyone's favorite bit of football technology, VAR. I don't think the AR gets involved. I said, you know, I'm not a father. And the VAR is... A team of VAR officials review footage from more than 2 dozen cameras positioned around the stadium. This gives Reft a more accurate picture of what's happening on the field versus their single point of view somewhere on the pitch. Refts can review and feedback footage from multiple angles to make sure their calls are as accurate as possible. That's until now because there's another acronym on the block. And this is SAOT which stands for semi-automated off-side technology.

Making its debut at the Qatar World Cup in 2022, this technology has fundamentally changed the way games attract and refereed. About a dozen high-speed cameras dotted around the stadium track 29-day points per person on the field, crank digital skeletons, and making sure that no one's got anywhere to hide. This day, there is then combined with a tiny sensor found inside the ball, which transmits its exact position at about 500 times a second. This information is all fed into an AI system, which builds an exact real-time 3D model of the field and its players. It can tell that the players need, foot, or cheeks are off-side by millimeters, but the technology doesn't just stop with fancy cameras.

This ball is actually the most advanced ever used at a World Cup. We touched on earlier, but I wanted to learn more about this computerised ball. What does it actually do? Purpose of it really is around making game more fair. In the modern game, VAR is a reality, right? You often faced with situations where even the rest stands on the sideline, spends multiple minutes trying to detect an off-site situation. This is something where the ball comes in handy and then provides a... Automatic calibration to the exact moment of the pass is being played. Again, there's something where, probably at the 22-world cup, we were able to decrease the time spent in front of the monitor versus refereeing the game. By more than 70% we're not taking away any decision rights from the referees or making a call for them, but we're providing them more reliable information for make the ride calls. Now, I have my own consumer trowel under, but I know that there's no chip in here. So I wonder if you're able to show us kind of

Well, what actually looks like. So this is where the chip is being placed right on the side of that ladder. It's opposite to valve. We've got this counterbalancing that is simulated without engineering experts from this first step, from simulation into materialized prototype. We achieved the perfectly counterbellbladder and therefore also counterbell

A player wouldn't be able to notice the change in the behaviour of the bull, so what are we doing to compensate for this additional payload to start to one side of the bull? Up to this date, no player was ever able to systematically detect a connected bull or distinguish a connected bull from a non-connected bull which is crazy to think about because yes, physically they are different. One contains or has a chip and sign one doesn't, but even if you tell them hey there's a difference between these two versions. Come to us, kick them 10 times, 15 times, 20 times and tell us which ones which they could not repeat the systematically. It's really, I think, a testament to the quality of Adidas engineering. Now, when you're watching this year's matches, take a second to think about all the hidden teams in tech that make the beautiful game possible. Catch you in the next one.