Football

As you move on to new adventures, I want to take a moment to say thank you. It was your day. The stars were aligned for you or to put it like you, ‘Zlatan aligned his stars.’ You were wearing the Ajax shirt with some pride and spark in your…

Hi Ignasi, thank you for taking the time to speak to us today. Firstly, can you tell our readers about yourself, what you currently do and how did you end up where you are right now? Also, when did you know you wanted to work in football? I’m from Barcelona but currently living in Pamplona. Everyone that knows me in football calls me Natxo. I’m a Social Media Strategist and a Content Producer for brands and companies.

How often do you expect a country to go through a rough economic and political patch? A decade or 40yrs? But Argentina’s citizens have been living through inflation their whole life by finding ways to adapt to years of high inflation! An Argentinian citizen once said, “Sleep for a week…

A Tenable Explanation For Why Home Teams Have More Success Than Away Teams — Perhaps no phenomena are more closely statistically measured, tracked, and contested than sports. Yet despite all the attributes and measures, one statistical point remains, in part, a mystery: why does the home team enjoy an advantage? There’s been no shortage of theoretical explanations, like how crowd noise disrupts the visiting…

Arsenal in the 2022/2023 premier league were the best they have been since the Invincibles era. The team was scintillating to watch at times, but the season tapered off and Arsenal were only two wins away from clinching the title. At the start of the season, very few people felt…

You can find the full code on my GitHub account. I. Introduction Estimating the market value of football players using machine learning serves various purposes and provides numerous benefits to various stakeholders in the football industry: Player evaluation: Clubs, agents and investors need accurate estimates of a player’s market value to make…

As a concept, we were told from the start that there would always be a winner and a loser, but why is nobody talking about the case of a tie? In football leagues, a win is rewarded with three points, a loss with a zero and a draw with one…

JIMMY BROWN When I was young, we all referred to Jim Thorpe as Jim Thorpe. But it was different with the greatest football player ever–and one of the greatest all-around athletes on the planet–Jim Brown. Perhaps as a testament to everlasting youth, we called him Jimmy Brown. Jimmy Brown was…

“Please do not allow football to be dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists.” These were the words of FIFA President Gianni Infantino to the nations competing in the Qatar World Cup last December. Perhaps their response could have been that it was FIFA who had allowed football…