The conference should look to move the soccer panel from the relatively similar general discussions heard each year to one that fosters a real public discussion of soccer analytics replete with data and associated visualizations like those found on other panels.
FORBES: Soccer Analytics at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
MADRID In the week that followed the stunning first legs of the Champions League semifinals, two matches that saw the soccer royalty of Real Madrid and Barcelona thoroughly humbled by German opposition, the chatter in the soccer world turned to figuring out Germany's secret.
The country has no real tradition of playing soccer at school.
Last month it said that soccer faces real threats in the form of corruption and match-fixing and it is important that FIFA be involved in the fight against organized crime.
FIFA, the sport's global ruling body, said in January that soccer faced real threats in the form of corruption and match-fixing. and that it is important that it be involved in the fight against organized crime.
Maybe this is one of those cases of events in the real world intruding into the soccer sphere.
Beckham, who left Spanish giants Real Madrid for Major League Soccer in the United States in 2007, scored for the Galaxy in the 2-1 win over FC Dallas on Sunday that earned the club the Supporters' Shield for Major Soccer League's top point-scoring team.
The long-held view of Real Madrid, conversely, is that domination in soccer speaks to a larger sense of national supremacy.
With soccer practice, carpooling schedules, homework and real-world dangers, online privacy often takes a backseat.
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And though these German sides undeniably earned their respective berths in the finals as they blitzed Spanish stalwarts Barcelona and Real Madrid in the UEFA semifinals, and while German soccer enthusiasts worldwide will pridefully watch this first-ever all-German Champions final, I suspect that TV ratings in the U.S. for the final match will suffer for the match compared to the last few seasons.
"Real Madrid has been consistently delivering the highest revenues of any soccer team in the world, despite an intense economic meltdown in Spain, " said Forbes.
Two soccer teams top the list: Manchester United and Real Madrid.
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Real's Santiago Bernabeu stadium was one of the first grand soccer palaces when it opened in 1947.
Bruyninckx's work has been acknowledged by one of the world's top soccer coaches, Jose Mourinho, the current manager at Real Madrid who has won titles in four different countries and lifted the European Champions League twice.
My colleague Agustino Fontevecchia describes what Real Madrid has been doing to reach the top of Forbes most valuable soccer teams list.
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Electronic Arts announced on Thursday that Real Madrid midfielder Kaka would be on the cover of EA Sports FIFA Soccer 11 which hits stores September 28 in North America.
This failure to continue the discussion with tangible real-time examples of actual analytics tools available today is where the soccer panel has failed its attendees for the last several years.
FORBES: Soccer Analytics at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat-trick as Argentina saw off South Korea at Soccer City to all but book their place in the last 16 of the World Cup.
The micoach Elite System was developed in close consultation and collaboration with many of the leading soccer coaches and clubs including Major League Soccer teams New York Red Bulls, Philadelphia Union and Seattle Sounders FC, as well as Real Madrid, AC Milan, Ajax and Bayern Munich.
The Gulf countries have only previously been able to attract soccer stars at the twilight of their career, such as World Cup winning Italian defender Fabio Cannavaro and Real Madrid legend Raul.
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