Soccer panel set to approve goal-line technology

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ZURICH (AP) — Soccer’s rules-making panel is set to approve goal-line technology, clearing FIFA to use it at the 2014 World Cup.

Two years after Sepp Blatter reversed his opposition to high-tech aids for referees, FIFA’s president will help decide on Thursday if two systems passed trials to prove they can accurately judge when balls cross the goal line.

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