So we targeted those areas."īefore it walloped Brazil earlier this week, the German team had spent years working with university students to gather intel on the home team, Reuters reports. And before the game against France, we saw that the French were very concentrated in the middle but left spaces on the flanks because their full-backs didn't push up properly. Moves in the box, to use another example. "We also have a lot of qualitative data for the opposition available," German team general manager Oliver Bierhoff said in an interview with ESPN this week. When not watching their own tapes during the World Cup, the German team was studying up on the performance of its competitors. The use of data and statistics to gain a competitive advantage has grown across a wide range of sports including basketball, tennis, and even, just a little bit, Ultimate Frisbee. Soccer is among the growing list of sports being transformed by Big Data ( Moneyball is probably an outdated reference at this point). SAP's Match Insight can help players better understand and tweak their ball handling skills. That can help them visualize and exploit weak links in an opponent's setup.
When it comes to positioning on the field, Match Insights can show the team virtual "defensive shadows" that show how much area a player can protect with his own body, Mr. The tool is giving the German coaches in Brazil the ability "to crawl through complex video and make it simple for them to know what they need to win," said Chris Burton, SAP's group vice president for global sponsorships. Players can also take a look at their performance data at a setup in the players' lounge. If a coach wanted to adjust Thomas Mueller's speed, position or possession time, for example, he could send those stats and a video clip from that day's game to Mueller's cellphone. The tool also allows coaches to determine performance indicators for individual players, which they can then send to teammates' mobile devices.
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"In contrast, Germany passed the ball at full speed to create holes in the defense and clinically took advantage." "Despite possessing the ball for 52% of Tuesday's game, Brazil created barely a handful of chances," the Journal's Jonathan Clegg wrote. That style of play was evident Tuesday in Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil, which included three goals scored in a span of 179 seconds.
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