DUESSELDORF, GERMANY – MAY 11: Senior Manager Data-Science & Machine Learning of DFB-Akademie Pascal Bauer (L) and Performance Analyst of Fortuna Düsseldorf Philipp Grobelny (R) talk to the audience during the Sportsinnovation 2022 at Merkur Spiel-Arena on May 11, 2022 in Duesseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Boris Streubel/Bundesliga/Bundesliga Collection via Getty Images)
Football as we know it today is just about as far removed from the ‘working man’s’ game of old as it’s possible to be, however, technology won’t stand still and things will continue to evolve.
Twenty or so years ago, Sam Allardyce, then of Bolton, took advantage of a tool known as ProZone, where, as BBC Sport noted, he ‘used meticulous performance analysis techniques at the cutting edge of sports science.’
Depending on your point of view, Big Sam was either a genius looking to gain an advantage, or being laughed at for a reliance on ‘technology’ to do the dirty work for him.
AI will be the future of the football
At the elite level, even managing to gain a little extra over your opponent makes new ways of working worth considering, and that seems ostensibly why some of Europe’s top teams already appear to be working with AI.
Former super agent and Premier League co-creator, Jon Smith, is all for it.
“What’s going to happen in football is AI. Yes really,” he said to CaughtOffside for his exclusive column.
“It’s really interesting and fascinating, and I’m already speaking to a lot of the clubs at senior levels about this.
“Manchester City, for example, could set up Arsenal’s own tactical formation and run it through AI, where it will forecast what players will do in certain situations; ie if they go wide, if they go through the middle, if they play three across the middle, rather than four.
Sam Allardyce was well ahead of his time with the use of technology (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
“AI runs those sequences, and you end up with a number of different circumstances…
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Author : Jason Pettigrove
Publish date : 2024-09-25 11:35:36
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