🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey
“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”
“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”
“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”
On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”
“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”
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Parents - put your phones out of sight when you’re with your kids. I really mean this. Especially at home. Treat it like a landline and “hang it up” in one place. (Wife and I have a little holder for them in the kitchen) When you need to check it, go over to where it’s placed and look at it, then walk away. Do not carry it around like a digital pacifier. Be present without it in sight. I guarantee this will make a huge impact on their childhood experience.
@malekaimischke I run SportsMall (multi-tenant sports training platform, 240k CA flagship + currently building in CO and IL). We’re integrating education and evaluating top operators/models. Alpha/Two Hour Learning suggested I reach out—would love to connect.
Playing around with full 3D reconstruction!
-2 cameras record footage
-Triangulate
-Recreate scene in 3D
Could eventually work to improve graphics and make this video game like
Touch detection is working 🙌
When the ball changes direction near a player = touch counted :
- Live touch counter per ball
- Shot speed
-1st touch distance
Added occlusion handling to my ball tracking pipeline ⚽️
Now a ball can't just disappear mid-play
- Predicts position using velocity when ball is hidden
- Merges broken tracks
Tested on a longer video - the heatmap effect is very satisfying ♨️
Added homography to my sports video analysis pipeline 🎯
Now I can:
- Click points on the video to map to a 2D field
- Transform player & ball positions to top-down view
- Track multiple balls with separate trajectories
Next up, advanced stat detection
Just built a computer vision pipeline that tracks balls in sports videos and shows:
-Its trajectory over time RF-DETR Large + custom tracking = 🔥
-Where the ball traveled (heatmap)
-How fast it's moving (color-coded speed)
@measure_plan@mirrash7 I have an interesting project (that would compensate you) around integrating computer vision into soccer technology training. Can we set up a 15 minute call?