Gijs de Jong on new technologies

The Dutch Football Federation's Director of Operations, Gijs de Jong, is one of the names who will speak at this year's The Future of Football International Congress, being hosted in Alvalade on the 20th and 21st of April.

Speaking with the club's official website this afternoon, de Jong touched on the issues of new technologies in football: "The video referee is the future of football. Technologies has developed so much in recent years that it is time for us to use it for the development of football. I am sure that in a fer years we will look back at how the video referee changed football."

Gijs de Jong is responsible for the Dutch Football Federations' ‘Refereeing 2.0’ project, launched in 2013 with the goal of supporting referees. The project is centred around goal-line technology, fifth and sixth assistant referees and the use of the video referee.