Audio long read: Science and the World Cup — how big data is transforming football
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Big data is playing an increasingly important role in football, with technologies capturing huge amounts of information about players' positions and actions during a match.
To make sense of all this information, most elite football teams now employ data analysts plucked from top companies and laboratories. Their insights are helping to steer everything from player transfers to the intensity of training, and have even altered how the game is played.
This is an audio version of our Feature: Science and the World Cup: how big data is transforming football
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| 1:07.6 | In this episode, Science and the World Cup, how big data is transforming football. |
| 1:13.1 | Written by David Adam and read by me, Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:19.3 | The scowl on Cristiano Ronaldo's face made international headlines in October when the Portuguese superstar was pulled from a match between Manchester |
| 1:28.7 | United and Newcastle with 18 minutes left to play. But he's not alone in his sentiment. |
| 1:35.3 | Few footballers agree with a manager's decision to substitute them in favour of a fresh replacement. |
| 1:41.4 | During the Football World Cup tournament in Qatar, players will have a more |
| 1:45.5 | evidence-based way to argue for time on the pitch. Within minutes of the final whistle, |
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