Personalities
TAG Heuer and Claudio Ranieri’s Connection
Personalities
TAG Heuer and Claudio Ranieri’s Connection
As a part of its role as Offical Timekeeper, TAG has supplied Premier League match referees with its Connected watches, programmed with a dedicated “referee app”. What might initially seem as a marketing ploy, to the cynically minded, is in fact a useful and practical application of the Connected watch. “It helps connect the four referees and linesman, which is, of course, good. It’s also a good thing for the future, football is always getting faster and an easy connection between them is important” asserts Raineri. “For example”, he says recounting an anecdote involving a referee’s TAG Heuer Connected, “in one match recently, we scored twice without touching the net. I called over to the closest linesman for confirmation and he showed me “GOAL” on his watch, that’s good technology… technology in football is now very important.”