In a move which FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has described as "a kind of revolution" for the game of football, goal-line technology will be used by FIFA for the first time in Japan this week.

Despite the fact that the FIFA governing body has been vehemently opposing the idea of using any form of technology for several years, the move in the direction of using goal-line technology has apparently been prompted by the 2010 World Cup incident, in which England was disallowed a clear goal that midfielder Frank Lampard had scored against Germany.

With the FIFA governing body having finally given in to the requests for making use of 21st-century technology, the use of goal-line technology will employed for the first time in Club World Cup's Thursday, December 6, curtain-raiser between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Auckland City.

In fact, with FIFA to test out two systems - UK's Hawk-Eye and Germany's GoalRef - during the matches of the Club World Cup in Japan, Valcke said on the fifa. com website that the official use of goal-line technology for the first time marked "a big day" for football.

Revealing that "the tests are done; and the instillation tests were successful," Valcke said: "This is also an important day for us, because we will use one of the two systems we are using here in the FIFA Confederations Cup next year."