The world governing body are using two systems, Hawk-Eye and
GoalRef, at the Club World Cup in Japan, with one of them to be used at
next year's Confederations Cup.
"One of these two systems - we are not going to take both - but
one of the two will be used at Confederations Cup and at the 2014 World
Cup," Blatter said in Tokyo.
"There were no critical decisions so far," the Swiss added before Sunday's final between Chelsea and Brazil's Corinthians in Yokohama.
"We will make an assessment after the final matches tomorrow. For the time being, we can only say it works."
The British-designed Hawk-Eye, used successfully for many years
in cricket and tennis, relies on seven high-speed cameras set up at
different angles covering each goal.
GoalRef, a Danish-German project, uses an electronic coil inside the ball and low magnetic waves around the goal.
"The referees are happy to have this help for them because they
know now if there is a conflicting situation they will get the accuracy
to say if was a goal or not," said Blatter.
"We were speaking of goal-line technology since the beginning
of 2000. We had it in the 2007 Club World Cup with the (Cairos) chip in
the ball system.
"We saw it didn't work so well so we put the goal-line
technology on ice until we had a system that is accurate - and then look
what happened.
"In the 2010 World Cup, you remember Lampard scored a wonderful
goal (against Germany) which landed at least 70 centimetres behind the
line.
"The officials couldn't see it, wouldn't see it - I don't know. But anyway the game continued.
"At that time as president of FIFA, I said if I was still
president of FIFA in 2014 then we cannot afford to have the same
situation when an accurate system exists."
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