what awaits us for the number 1 sport on the planet?

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Football is the number 1 sport on the planet. Played at all ages on all continents, it represents a link between cultures. Gradually, it begins its technological transformation, in the game with ehealth arbitration but also for fans with social networks. But what does the future hold? What are the big changes that lie ahead? What will football of the future look like? Analysis.

HTC report outlines future football

In 2020, HTC, released a report on the football of the future. Several major axes then emerged from this analysis. 30 innovations were listed for the next 5 to 55 years. This fascinating document also illustrates the great unknown in which the world of the ball is going to plunge.

Among the possibilities discussed, there are just as many Android footballers, cameras integrated into the equipment or the possibility of following the match thanks to holograms. We note that two aspects are mainly at the heart of our concerns: promoting immersion and the spectator's experience, but above all collecting always more data to improve sports performance.

Always more statistics

This is an already heavy trend that is gradually taking hold in European professional teams: massive use of statistics, of "big data". Its use is already massive especially in US sports American football or basketball. European sport has struggled to keep up.

The idea for teams is to act at different points in the process. First, in the recruitment phase. Goodbye old VHS to discover an obscure Brazilian player. Today, the “scouts” have access to a whole battery of statistics to assess potential recruits. Then, during the season itself, the possibility of completely breaking down the activity of each player, of configuring his training and his recovery according to it has undeniable advantages.

Start-ups have of course launched themselves into this niche. Among them, Footovision, located at Le Tremplin, an incubator located at the Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris. Interviewed by Numerama, Pierre Mirales, one of its founders explains: “We have developed a unique technology. By simply starting games on TV, we are able to extract the position of the players at any time with our tracking software. We also do what the market is already capable of, namely knowing the number of passes, balls touched … Thanks to this, we really get the ehealth game of the match and we can do all the analyzes imaginable. "

smart health connected objects, a central stake in the football of the future

Zepp Play Soccer: the activity tracker. Designed by the Californian company Zepp, it is a sensor specifically designed for football. Lightweight (7 grams), it allows data to be transmitted in real time to a tablet or smartphone. The data transmitted relate to the distance covered, the sprints performed, the average speed, and the success rate of the shots. Its autonomy is 40 hours. What makes it interesting for a team sport, however, is that it also measures team play. The data from the different sensors combine to provide an overview.

smart health connected clothes. Beyond an additional sensor, the most obvious solution is of course in the clothes the player wears. It can be shoes, many models are already available. But a newcomer, Playertek, became interested in polo shirts last April. Already used by more than 1200 professional athletes, it allows to measure its own statistics but also to compare them with those of the rest of the database. Don't you finally want to know if you are faster than Giroud or if you last longer than Kanté?

Immersion for fans

Many aspects can be improved for football fans. Today, we are focusing more on interaction through social networks and the possibility of following the outcome of a match live through an application. But why not look further? Virtual and augmented reality open up a dizzying array of possibilities for the years to come.

Among the tracks developed by HTC, there were thus mini-drones used to film in a different way or cameras integrated into clothing. One could thus imagine seeing a match in the skin of a player. In short, what nonsense ehealth games!

Towards robot football?

Robots playing football? Goodbye human players like today? This is far from being an unrealistic project since there are already football tournaments played by androids. Most important, baptized Robocup, has existed for more than 20 years now. Of course, from a tactical and technical point of view, we are still far from Cristiano Ronaldo and E Messi. But with the development of robotics and AI, that could change quickly. For details, France won the 2020 edition in the “human-sized androids” category.

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