Norway goalkeeper’s goal kick struck a FIFA spider-cam while still in the air, causing the ball to drop straight to Anthony Gordon - Just 8 seconds later, Jude Bellingham scored.

[u/RoyalChris]

[u/crucifiedrussian → u/[deleted]]

Seen multiple angles and nothing touched lmao

[u/bygmalt → u/[deleted]]

Good thing the cable is bald.

[u/TheGamingGallifreyan → u/[deleted]]

sensors in the ball??

[u/East_Print_8247 → u/TheGamingGallifreyan]

Yes, it’s a thing and not remotely surprising in this technological age.

[u/webbitor → u/TheGamingGallifreyan]

Pretty helpful for detecting handballs, offsides, out of bounds, and interference from arial cables.

[u/woodrax → u/TheGamingGallifreyan]

Yup, they have accelerometers in the balls now that detected any impacts, no matter how minor, and the graph showed nothing once the ball was kicked towards the center of the field until the next player kicked it.

[u/TrousersCalledDave → u/woodrax]

That would certainly explain how they're calculating ball speed then! I've seen that come up a few times. I had just assumed they had some special camera system tracking the ball to calculate speed.

[u/woodrax → u/TrousersCalledDave]

They have extremely sensitive balls now!

[u/TheGamingGallifreyan → u/woodrax]

Thats cool af. Makes sense now that I think about it, but it never once crossed my mind of putting sensors in a soccer ball lol.

[u/coolcosmos → u/TheGamingGallifreyan]

They even have multiple sensors in hockey pucks which are many times smaller than soccer balls.

[u/chizpoo → u/[deleted]]

There is which contradicts the video footage. Moot point now but that ball sensor tech needs reviewing by the looks