Argentina's former national coach Cesar Luis Menotti has criticized plans to use a new high-tech soccer ball that's implanted with a computer chip in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, fearing that it may jeopardize the emotional aspect of the sport. "With all the electronics, I have the feeling that soccer is losing something very special," Menotti said at a coaching seminar in Cuba. He spoke out against the further "technification" of soccer. "A ball is only intelligent when it's lying at the foot of a player. When it's in the heads of the officials, then it turns into ignorant plaything," he said. After a smooth debut at the U17 world championship in Peru, the chip-ball will be tested again at December's world club championship in Japan before FIFA decides in early March whether or not to use the ball in the World Cup.