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CATEGORY: FúTBOL
Women's sport has seen a spectacular growth in the last five years. The teams, thanks to better preparation, have been accumulating tremendous success, and a higher level and spectacularity in their competitions. But this is only part of why they have attracted public interest and growing fan attendance to the matches. Furthermore, with a growing interest in equality and non-discrimination between the sexes, society has been drawn to female competition, identifying sporting values with social values.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
The nihilist conception of football is based on knowledge democratization in recent years to modify the coach-player relationship. On the other hand, we will see how globalisation and commercialisation of the world have also impacted understanding the game itself.
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
For many years, focus was placed in the adoption of new technologies both in all areas of sport and in business management, considering the relationship with customers—in this case, fans. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that sport needs new strategies based on innovation. It can be observed that, due to the closure of stadiums, the sport industry entirely depends on the live game.
CATEGORY: UNIVERSITAS
Have you ever wondered who are the Barça Universitas students? What are their professional backgrounds? Where are they from? Keep reading to find out more about of one of our newest students, Mia.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
Over a football game, referees must quickly make around 130 decisions in order to analyse what has happened. The risk of making mistakes is high, and this can have a direct impact on the final result of any game. Some factors such as the flash-lag effect—the difficulty of perceiving the location of an object while something else is occurring at the same time—the background noise, the players’ comments on the game events or fatigue can lead referees to make poor decisions.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
The unpredictable nature of the football game keeps it from being considered an exact science, and possibly for this same reason, it is approached from all possible disciplines, making clear the insuperable need of humans to expand knowledge and satisfy our curiosity.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
This is the first in a series on modern football analytics. It is written for people working in football – the coaches, the analysts and the players – for the people who want to apply numbers in football – the data scientists and the statisticians – and for the fans who want to understand how numbers are changing the game. It is written for you.
CATEGORY: INJURY MANAGEMENT
Numerous variables can influence injury frequency in team sports, and many of them are highly interconnected. Success in reducing injury rates requires a thorough understanding of these potential risk factors in isolation, but we also need to know their relationships. The truth is that every time there is an injury, there is usually a confluence of many factors that make the examination of each situation more complicated.
CATEGORY: MARKETING, COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT
The advent of blockchain technology and the resulting proliferation NFTs and crypto have greatly impacted the world around us and the sport business landscape in what feels like the Gold rush at best and Tulipmania at worse, but it’s important to take stock of what’s really happening rather then get caught in the positive or negative hype.
CATEGORY: PSYCHOLOGY
We cannot deny the power of nostalgia in our lives. It is a unique defense mechanism, the result of our evolution, and the incredible time machine that we have in our head, our brain.
