Can Technology Improve An Amateur Football Team?

technology is now an integral part of

professional football at the highest

level data is analyzed in meticulous

detail with coaching staff well aware

that agreed a miniscule difference

between two sides however could this

technology also be the difference for an

amateur football team a regular bog

standard a two side team made a fairly

fit low ability players let's give one a

load of check and see what happens

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this is the mighty copper 90 FC 1/8 side

of his team to play in the WC 1n

Football League over the past few

seasons they've experienced the highs of

promotion and the lows of relegation

this season they find themselves

languishing and division 2 looking to

return to division 1 where they belong

at the helm is their new ish manager

Miguel otherwise known as el mr. who's

number 2 and long-standing Club left

back is Tom affectionately known as

brandy we've got a pretty good team here

at Copper 90 the season a good mix of

young players and old players all

mentoring and holding because he's home

goalkeeper he's one of the oldest

players and yet he's committed as well

as a solid team copper 90 also have a

new tactical approach to the new season

with their team and tactics sorted is

data the missing link that will help

take their game to the next level it's

the 27th of September copper 90 or 4

games into the season and sits second in

the table tonight will be the first time

they try out their performance tech but

first the manager must pick his team so

it's 5 o'clock Thursday which is about

the time

the team news gets announced on whatsapp

so everyone's sitting by their phones

quite a nervously now waiting to see

whether they've made the starting lineup

for that today offered himself here if I

was selecting quorum fields as the arena

on FIFA I'd definitely check tonight

would you

this is the the match day routine we

just walked from the office to the game

there's a couple of things we've got to

do along the way though a couple of sort

of superstitions we used to go to that

newsagent

to get like a loot day but then we kept

losing so we've actually scrapped that

one then we now go to a different news

agent down here which every time we go

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and use that we first cuz then it's now

time for the team to receive their tech

this is our new product the elite

aspiring for honors or anyone who just

wants to see their data and have their

own tracks and it also gives you support

science advice afterwards from some

primarily explorer scientists that we've

worked with

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what do we create feelings like football

okay the game gets off to a good start a

confident copper 90 side seem to be

putting in more effort than usual

perhaps because their data is being

tracked perhaps because they're being

filmed for once

after 10 minutes l missed his emphasis

on playing out from the bat comes to

fruition in a counter-attack finished

off by Allen Callen moments later

Agostini finishes to make it to now we

can go to the meal again and we build up

from there say now they're gonna press a

small penalty hold on and win the game

2-1 now it's time to check the stats

Bluetooth a anything I think it will

psychological they knew where there were

being drugged today so maybe they run a

bit more because happy I'm thinking in a

few weeks time we're gonna be looking at

these phones at the end of the match and

we're gonna be seeing much higher

numbers copper 9 CFC remain unbeaten and

tonight face electric blues X Premier

League fitness coach and tech expert

Chris is here to help interpret the data

and give the team some advice so the

total distance is a broad measure of the

and

capacity the underlying fitness of the

boys and at first sight I'd say actually

you better reasonably fit image of guys

here they have one lower with the many

of don't work the two key metrics that

I've explained to Miguel I would be

looking at for you guys the number of

power plays accelerations are

decelerations

and Sprint's and that really is one of

the key metrics and the second one would

be your sprinting distance when you

scroll down on your sprinting distance

have a look at five-minute break that's

just make sure that your copper 90 go on

to win 3-2 the data is making them run

more and it seems they're improving

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looks like I took the game pretty easy

well that's a lie I'm blown out my they

follow this result up with a draw

against a strong new team in the league

bloomsbury a last-minute equaliser

denying them three points the stats have

helped the team paced themselves across

the match but can't account for a slip

of concentration right at the end

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just when things seemed to be going well

for the team unbeaten with the word

invincibles being prematurely banded

around things take an unexpected turn

for the worse two of the teams with

playing the game I'm one in three drop

out halfway through and the team were

called no without controversy senior

teams and instead of giving us the

points we'll have already won against

those previous team that robot will give

in draws so we lost a few points there

we lost our positions of the league and

it's a matter now of a struggling

because because we were no us that

evening their promotion rivals take

advantage of an uncharacteristically

disorganized copper 90 side dismantling

them in a 6-2 win the run is over

is December copper nineties form has

dropped off and a mid-table finish looks

like it's on the cards a spirited

performance season win 4-2 with both

Miguel and Brandi on the scoresheet

season kind of dipped off to at the end

a little bit the vests I've been good at

just making sure everyone runs a lot and

it is pretty good to be able to see your

positioning at the end of the game I

think it didn't necessarily help us win

the league yet but I think it's

definitely helped us improve or be more

aware of how good we always players it

also has a rogue's from Felicia everyone

thinking that beyond player yeah run

this we thought the old players would be

slower but they've actually been talking

with the charts and I'll show you to

give their youngsters underdog yeah the

experiment is over and what we learnt

it's clear from copper nineties varying

fortunes but just like at the top level

technology can help you understand the

way you play but it can't necessarily

win you games one thing's for certain

though it helps intimidate any opponent

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he's not even chasing you down in

support from you feel a bit behind it