South American leagues used it extensively before FIFA agreed to provide it to referees at the 2014 World Cup. Documents and emails seen by The New York Times show FIFA offered $500,000 to buy the patent five months before the 2014 World Cup. View all New York Times newsletters. Allemagne said he hoped the new FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, would act in better faith than his predecessor. At a news conference during the 2014 World Cup, Allemagne said he’d grown up poor and hoped his invention would change his life.

Source: New York Times December 15, 2017 23:25 UTC