{"id":12911,"date":"2025-04-08T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/club-world-cup-referees-to-wear-bodycams\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:07:30","slug":"club-world-cup-referees-to-wear-bodycams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/club-world-cup-referees-to-wear-bodycams\/","title":{"rendered":"Club World Cup: Referees to wear bodycams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Referees will wear bodycams at this summer&#8217;s Club World Cup.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage will be made available to broadcasters during matches at the 32-team competition in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the Fifa referees committee, said: &#8220;It is a good chance to offer the viewers a new experience, in terms of images taken from a perspective, from an angle of vision which was never offered before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jarred Gillett became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cxwv9w7g12do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">first referee<\/a> to wear a bodycam during a Premier League game in Crystal Palace&#8217;s 4-0 win over Manchester United in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was permitted as a &#8220;one-off&#8221; to capture footage for a programme promoting match officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea and Manchester City are the Premier League teams competing at the Club World Cup, which runs from 15 June to 13 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c045z2g7rplo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referees will wear bodycams at this summer&#8217;s Club World Cup. Footage will be made available to broadcasters during matches at the 32-team competition in the United States. Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the Fifa referees committee, said: &#8220;It is a good chance to offer the viewers a new experience, in terms of images taken from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12913,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions\/12913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}