2014 World Cup Will Be First to Use Goal-Line Technology

FIFA, soccer's global governing body, confirmed this week that goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

That will mark the first time the planet's biggest single-sport event uses the high-tech method of determining whether or not the ball crosses the plane of the goal.

Goal-line technology was used at the Club World Cup in December and will be used again at this summer's Confederations Cup -- a World Cup preview of sorts held in the big event's host nation one year before the World Cup.

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