TV history to be made again as Bayern Munich take on Borussia Mönchengladbach
Forty years ago, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich made television history when their match on 11 December 1984 became the first to be shown live on TV in Germany. The same two teams will be at the forefront of technology once again on Saturday when their game will be broadcast with a moving main camera.
It is a camera that never loses sight of the ball and misses almost nothing. One such device, which moves on a track under the stadium roof, will be used for the first time in the Matchday 16 encounter clash between Gladbach and Bayern.
The camera will follow the ball around as it moves on Saturday, travelling along a 70-metre-long track and capable of reaching up to 23.6 mph (38 km/h). This would make it even faster than Heidenheim's Sirlord Conteh, who set a new all-time Bundesliga speed record earlier this season after being clocked at 22.8 mph (36.82 km/h).
The track will be installed on the roof of the main stand. From there, the almost bird-eye view will be similar to that in the video game EA Sports FC 25, in which the majority of the outfield players can be seen.
As such, exactly 40 years and one month after history was made with the first live match on TV, Bayern and Gladbach will herald in the dawn of the next big techincal innovation.
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