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Just by plotting each frame of these special goal-scoring sequences, it’s enlightening to see how these attacking teams move and exploit space to ultimately unlock the opposing defense.

More on how we built this model, how we plan to use it, and how deconstructing it can teach us more about the conditions under which goal-scoring events occur.

This decision support system intends to pair professional soccer players’ event-level data with multi-criteria decision analysis methods—resulting in a system which assists clubs with the identification, scouting, and acquisition of world-class talent.

Among other examples, we can determine when pressure scenarios are forcing the ball into less dangerous areas, which players are consistently turning the ball over at inopportune moments, and which players are shutting plays down in the most crucial moments.

Without paving the way for children from traditionally underserved populations, our soccer system will never enter the next stage of growth.

To borrow from U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro’s remarks: “That love of the game, those hopes for the future—that’s what youth soccer is all about.”