Showing posts with label SERGIO RAMOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SERGIO RAMOS. Show all posts
"Hay que saber dejar al margen las cosas de tu equipo y centrarse en la Selección. Ya analizaremos más adelante el próximo mes que es uno de lo más interesantes desde hace mucho tiempo".
El jugador del Real Madrid Sergio Ramos aseguró a su llegada a Las Rozas para concentrase con la Selección española que si tiene que elegir entre tener días más días de vacaciones e ir con el combinado nacional, se queda con esta última opción.
"Siempre es un orgullo venir a representar a España. No nos coge de sorpresa, siempre ha sido así. Yo prefiero venir a la Selección que tener dias de descanso", afirmó. Asimismo añadió: "Estamos aquí para hablar de la Selección. Tenemos dos partidos muy importantes y el objetivo es lograr las dos victorias para recuperar la línea".
El de Camas expresó su deseo de que España vuelva a "recuperar el rumbo". "Esperemos que salgamos de la mala racha que hemos tenido, que aunque han sido dos partidos y amistosos, tenemos que recuperar la línea que veníamos siguiendo", subrayó.
Sobre la baja de Cristiano Ronaldo en el equipo madridista, el jugador explicó que "es un jugador fundamental" y que espera que el portugués "esté listo cuanto antes".
Por otro lado, Sergio Ramos fue preguntado por el mes de abril, en el que podría haber cuatro choques entre el Madrid y el Barcelona. "Hay que saber dejar al margen las cosas de tu equipo y centrarse en la Selección. Ya analizaremos más adelante el próximo mes que es uno de lo más emocionantes desde hace mucho tiempo", concluyó.
Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos has shrugged off reports suggesting that Premier League champions Chelsea are interested in signing him, and the Spain international has made it clear that he's very happy at Santiago Bernabeu.
Ramos commented to Fifa.com on his current situation in the Spanish capital: "I know I need to earn a few more stripes and I’m more than happy to accept that challenge. I’ve been here for seven years and I’ve absorbed the values of this great club by playing alongside legends like Zinedine Zidane and Raul."
"Now I’m sharing the captaincy with Iker Casillas and I have to set an example and help the newer players, who don’t know the club so well."
Former Sevilla stopper Ramos added that he'd be more than happy to stay at the club for the remainder of his career.
He remarked: "As for the future, you can never say what’s going to happen in football, although I am happy here. I’m very grateful to Sevilla and Madrid for having moulded me as a player and a person.
"And what more can I ask for than to be with the best club in the world, in a fantastic city and with my family close by? I love it here and if they offer to renew my contract for life, I’d jump at the chance."
Up 4-0 over Ajax on Tuesday and with advancement to the knockout stage all sealed up, Jose Mourinho and Real Madrid got a little sneaky in their yellow card management.
First, Xabi Alonso earned his second yellow card and was sent off in the 87th minute after wasting time on a free kick in a way that looked like some kind of running seizure (video above). Then, in the 90th minute, Sergio Ramos earned his second yellow and got sent off when he took his sweet time on a goal kick (video below). That rules both players out for Real's final, utterly meaningless group stage match against Auxerre and gives them a clean slate for the knockout rounds.
Though they would never admit that they did this deliberately, you'd have to still believe in Peter Pan to believe that they didn't. To some people -- Champions League commentators included -- this is an outrage and to others it's just another example of Jose Mourinho's genius. After the match, Mourinho had this to say (via the AP):
“I don’t think it was necessary to get those red cards because we were in control,” Mourinho said. “But this is a fantastic result and that’s the only thing that matters.”
Marca thinks Jose used backup goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek in a game of whisper down the lane to pull this off.
UPDATE II: Well, it seems these guys weren't sneaky enough. UEFA has now charged Mourinho, Ramos, Alonso, and even Casillas and Dudek with "unsporting conduct." Their cases will be heard on November 30.
"Without Gol there is no Clasico" the billboards around Spain proclaim ahead of the season's first "match of the century." The pay-per-view television channel Gol TV has the rights to the game, and it's making sure everybody knows it with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, its elected poster boys, towering over roadsides and adorning subway stations. And it's not joking about the privilege -- the signal will be shut off in somewhere near 1,350 bars nationwide that are masquerading as private homes to avoid paying a heftier fee.
Spain tends to get very excited over the Clasico. Last year, an apocalyptic commercial with lightning bolts and crashing thunder blared from television sets in the lead-up to the Camp Nou game. Its message was loud and clear: This was going to be the match of the century. As it turned out, it wasn't. A single Zlatan Ibrahimovic strike proved sufficient to give Barca victory in an otherwise largely forgettable encounter.
It was a far cry from the previous Clasico, when Barcelona came to the Bernanbeu in the 2008-2009 season. With four points separating the two clubs, Barca inflicted so biblical a defeat that Real didn't win another game for the rest of the season.
With Lionel Messi in fine form, El Clasico promises to live up to the hype.
Manuel Pellegrini, Jose Mourinho's predecessor at Real and now at the helm at Malaga, might allow himself a wry smile as he goes about his business this week. Two Clasicos without goals last season would have suited the Chilean schemer, as it would have handed the title to Real. As it was, Barca beat Madrid 1-0 at home and 2-0 away.
"It's a game worth six points," Ronaldo told reporters last week, alluding to the importance of the fixture.
After the weekend added 13 goals to bring Barca and Real's tally to 33 each -- with a hat-trick apiece for Messi and Ronaldo -- any notion that this La Liga season would provide a third contender in the title race was effectively sunk when Villarreal and Valencia tied 1-1 at El Madrigal last weekend. The draw left both sides eight and eleven points adrift of Real Madrid, respectively. Espanyol is in fourth place with the winter break approaching, but even the most romantic fans of the Parakeets are not singing about a European campaign in the spring. A goal difference of -1 suggests a striking deficiency in former Espanyol defender-turned-coach Mauricio Pochettino's squad.
This weekend only proved to highlight the dominance of Barca and Real. Almeria was Barca's victim on Saturday, although its eight-goal drubbing was not a major surprise. The coastal club has been in woeful form all season and coach Juanma Lillo was sacked in the aftermath. Real's 5-1 win over Athletic Bilbao was more eye-catching, even if it was the same result as the corresponding fixture last season. With Fernando Llorente now one of the division's most feared strikers and youth players such as Iker Muniain coming through, Athletic is one of La Liga's stronger outfits. Yet Real still won easily.
The title will be decided, as it was last season, by which team prevails in Spain's two-match mini-league. History favors the home side for Monday's clash. In 25 years, Real has beaten Barca in the Catalan capital three times. It took the legendary Quinta del Buitre, under the tutelage of Alfredo di Stefano, to do so in 1983. And it required the Galacticos of president Florentino Perez's first tenure to repeat the feat 20 years later. Four years later, Julio Baptista gave Real a 1-0 victory in the club's last title-winning season.
It will take a team of similar caliber to win the day on this occasion, and Mourinho and Perez have constructed one. Real remains unbeaten in all competitions and is scoring freely while conceding just six goals in the league. The blossoming of Marcelo and Pepe, and the purchase of veteran campaigner Ricardo Carvalho, has cured Real's Achilles heel, its defense.
But in spite of Real's ostentatious assembly, it's not accurate to label the match as one purely of cash versus craft. Barcelona's team of mostly home-grown talent was not cheaply convened. The likes of Messi, Xavi, Andres Iniesta were taught their trade at La Masia, the most expensive finishing school in the world game, which operates on an annual budget similar to that of Almeria's. Neither do players such as Dani Alves, David Villa, Seydou Keita or Javier Mascherano arrive in Catalonia for the cost of an airfare.
"I don't think there has ever been a Clasico with as much parity as this one," Diego Maradona told reporters when he sat in on a Real training session recently. "Barca is in a great moment and Mourinho's team is very solid. This game will tip the balance in favor of which team will win the league. It will demonstrate the reliability of Mourinho and the playing style of Barcelona -- the team that plays with most personality will win."
The two most highly regarded coaches of their generation, the two strongest teams in Europe on current form, and the two finest attacking players in the game: El Clasico promises to be a game worthy of its lavish publicity.
It might even prove to be the match of the century.
Sergio Ramos: "Se va del Madrid uno de los grandes del fútbol"
Sergio Ramos, defensa internacional del Real Madrid, dedicó unas palabras de elogio a su amigo José María Gutiérrez "Guti" el día que anunció su marcha del Real Madrid tras quince años en la primera plantilla, y aseguró que "se va uno de los grandes del fútbol".
Ramos conversó desde Zahara de los Atunes, donde descansa tras el homenaje que le hicieron en Camas después de proclamarse campeón del Mundial 2010 con España.
RAMOS"Lo voy a echar mucho de menos porque además de ser un compañero es un gran amigo que se va. Es una persona muy grande por dentro"
"Es un día triste por el adiós de Guti. Se va uno de los grandes del fútbol y sin duda uno de los jugadores más grandes de la historia del Real Madrid", manifestó.
"Lo voy a echar mucho de menos porque además de ser un compañero es un gran amigo que se va. Es una persona muy grande por dentro, con un corazón que muchos desconocen. Siempre le he sentido cerca desde que llegué al Real Madrid, como buen compañero que es y en el campo sobra hablar de la calidad que tiene. Deja al madridismo grandes jugadas para el recuerdo. Le echaremos mucho de menos. Espero que sea feliz en Turquía", añadió.
ARBELOA"Todo el mundo habla siempre de la calidad de Guti, pero lo que no se sabe es cómo es su forma de ser y eso es lo que más vamos a echar de menos."
Álvaro Arbeloa también elogió al '14'
"Como canterano del Real Madrid que soy, Guti como Raúl, han sido los dos grandes referentes para nosotros. Los ejemplos a seguir para todos. Y los jugadores con los que hemos aprendido los valores del club", admitió Arbeloa.
"Todo el mundo habla siempre de la calidad de Guti, es lo que se ha visto en el campo siempre porque es uno de los mejores jugadores con los que compartido equipos, pero lo que no se sabe es cómo es su forma de ser y eso precisamente es lo que más vamos a echar de menos. Se va una gran persona y un referente", agregó.
This has been a FIFA World Cup™ of firsts: the first on African soil, the first won by Spain and also the first to be assessed second-by-second using the Castrol Index. This innovative system has utilised advanced technology to objectively analyse and evaluate every single player movement, and tonight it crowned its very own FIFA World Cup king.
Its verdict? That Sergio Ramos, Spain’s daring and energetic right-back, has been the most influential and effective player on show over the past month. The Real Madrid star, an ever-present in the top 20 since the second round of group matches, went into the Final in pole position and retained his place in style. Indeed, Ramos emerged as the Castrol Performance Analysts’ man of the match, pipping team-mates Joan Capdevila, Iker Casillas and Andres Iniesta with a score of 9.64 that reflected his efforts at both ends of the field.
A couple of efforts on Maarten Stekelenburg’s goal reminded everyone of his attacking capabilities, but it is at the back – where the world and European champions restricted the Netherlands to precious few opportunities – that the Spain No15 and his team-mates once again excelled. Indeed, with Vicente Del Bosque’s side having conquered the world on the back of four straight clean sheets during the knockout stage, and just two goals conceded overall, it is no wonder that Ramos’s main challenge for the Index title came from his own defensive colleagues.
Sneijder the midfield master
La Roja, who scored just eight goals en route to the title – the fewest of any world champions in history – were heavily indebted to a back four in which Joan Capdevila, Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique also excelled. In fact, only Philipp Lahm prevented this Spanish quartet taking places one, two, three and four in the Index, with Pique the man to drop into fifth due to his comparative lack of attacking involvement.
With David Villa – who leaves South Africa ranked by Castrol as the tournament’s leading striker - also recognised for his early heroics, Spain had kicked off at Soccer City with five players in the Castrol Index top ten to the Netherlands’ one. However, that sole Dutch representative, Wesley Sneijder, cemented his position with another stylish showing in the Final. Once again, the Inter Milan star was adjudged to be the Oranje’s top performer, and heads for home with the consolation of knowing that Castrol’s analysis has deemed him to be the tournament’s top midfielder.
Of course, the Final wasn’t the only match to influence the concluding Castrol Index of South Africa 2010. There was, after all, the small matter of that thrilling play-off for third place between Germany and Uruguay, a match that involved a clutch of potential contenders. Conspicuous by their absence, however, were two of the Index’s erstwhile leading lights: Philipp Lahm, the list’s one time leader, and Manuel Neuer, its top goalkeeper.
Nevertheless, while Lahm’s illness-enforced absence denied him the opportunity to return to the summit, he remained Germany’s highest-ranked player at fourth, while Neuer retained his pre-eminent position at the top of the goalkeeping list despite a late challenge from Casillas. The German duo were even able to gain ground in the Index as they ended the tournament with a superior average score to some of those involved in the last two fixtures.
Suarez outshines Forlan
Although an impressive showing in the third-place play-off was naturally not weighted as highly as a starring role in the Final, others also climbed, with adidas Golden Boot and Golden Ball winners Thomas Muller and Diego Forlan making major gains to enter the top ten and top 50 respectively.
Forlan would have considerably higher but for a poor pass completion rate, with the Uruguay star ranking 61st out of 71 forwards who attempted more than 50 passes. Attacking colleague Luis Suarez ultimately outranked him with an eighth-place finish, while credit should also go to Ghana’s John Pantsil and Paulo da Silva of Paraguay, both of whom finished in the top 20 despite exiting at the quarter-final stage.
There could only be one winner, however, and it was Ramos who took the inaugural honours, completing a fairy tale couple of years for both him and his trophy-laden team.
1 SERGIO RAMOS DF SPAIN 9.79 2 JOAN CAPDEVILA DF SPAIN 9.74 3 CARLES PUYOL DF SPAIN 9.70 4 PHILIPP LAHM DF GERMANY 9.66 5 GERARD PIQUE DF SPAIN 9.63 6 DAVID VILLA FW SPAIN 9.59 7 WESLEY SNEIJDER MF NETHERLANDS 9.56 8 LUIS SUAREZ FW URUGUAY 9.53 9 THOMAS MUELLER MF GERMANY 9.51 10 MANUEL NEUER GK GERMANY 9.48 11 SERGIO BUSQUETS MF SPAIN 9.46 12 JOHN PANTSIL DF GHANA 9.43 13 MARK VAN BOMMEL MF NETHERLANDS 9.41 14 BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER MF GERMANY 9.39 15 PAULO DA SILVA DF PARAGUAY 9.36 16 XABI ALONSO MF SPAIN 9.34 17 ARNE FRIEDRICH DF GERMANY 9.32 18 GREGORY VAN DER WIEL DF NETHERLANDS 9.30 19 JORIS MATHIJSEN DF NETHERLANDS 9.28 20 MAXIMILIANO PEREIRA DF URUGUAY 9.26
Ask a thousand football fans what they love about the
Spanish national team and you can bank on the fact that Xavi, Fernando Torres, David Villa, Andres Iniesta, quick passing and attacking verve will feature in the vast majority of the answers.
Only the anorak, and I, will fight for the good name of their defensive troops – Iker Casillas, Carlos Marchena, Gerard Pique, Carles Puyol, Sergio Ramos and Joan Capdevila. They are the least known and least appreciated of La Furia Roja, but some of the funniest,
cleverest and most hard-working
footballers at this tournament.
For example, had you any idea that for all Spain’s marvellously daring play when they tear into opponents, the World Cup semi-finalists have kept clean sheets in 19 of their 30 matches since winning the European
Championship in 2008?
And, based on the bedrock of their stingy back four, Spain have now won 40 consecutive internationals when they have gone 1-0 up. Marchena has racked up a world record of 53 inter-
nationals without defeat, beating Garrincha’s record of 49, Capdevila reached the quarter-finals in South Africa as Fifa’s highest-rated player of the tournament via their Castrol Index – earning 9.7 out of 10 despite the fact even the Villarreal man himself says he is “not a first line player”.
Ramos and Capdevila play more like wing-backs than full-backs and before last night’s win over Paraguay, the two had not only completed the majority of Spain’s 106 crosses into the penalty area (28 more than their closest rival) they also had two of the best pass
completion rates in the tournament, 79% and 81% respectively.
I wanted to be a bullfighter, not a footballer, but my mum was too scared
Sergio Ramos
Ramos is something of a law unto himself who told me last week that he got so high up the pitch against
Honduras because he has promised a girlfriend a goal and special celebration, so he’s flying down the wing regardless of tactical orders.
And Capdevila is a good footballer who is one of the most dogged of modern tacklers, but a flying machine he certainly ain’t any more. So shouldn’t Spain be conceding goals to clever opposition wingers? Isn’t the fact that they are often left with two at the back an invitation for quick counter-
attacking teams to score and to beat them on a consistent basis? The odd couple of centre-backs are a major part of why that doesn’t happen.
A couple of days ago, Argentina’s 1978 World Cup-winning coach Cesar Luis Menotti described Pique as “the greatest
centre-half I have seen since Franz Beckenbauer”. When I mentioned this to the Barcelona defender he stopped for a milisecond before confirming that “everyone knows that Menotti knows his football”. Which sums up Pique’s personality: good enough to be nicknamed
“Piquenbauer” in Catalunya, but cheeky, irreverent and occasionally wild.
Television interviews in the Camp Nou have been interrupted by Pique and Bojan dancing behind the presenter wearing only towels around their laps and this week at Ellis Park an interview with Cesc Fabregas was enlivened by the towering centre-half disrobing revealingly behind the interviewer in order to make his best friend, Fabregas, crack up in helpless laughter.
The fact he is so devotedly close to the massively serious, almost obsessively
committed Puyol is one of the
quixotic tricks football produces. They have played together 76 times for club and country, losing twice, and the bond works off the pitch too. “He’s heavy on your ears,” Pique admits about Puyol. “He thinks I lose concentration and he never stops yelling ‘Geri’ at me – even when the ball is in the opposition penalty area!”
Iniesta is an amused spectator with club and country. “They are completely different characters and players which is presumably why the fit is so good,” he says. “They each improve the other and if Puyol brings the power and the determination then Geri adds elegance and a great ability to bring the ball out of defence. Honestly, I think Geri
playing for Barca and Spain has added a lot of fun to Carles’ life. Before he used to stress out quite a lot. Since he teamed up with Pique he laughs more and enjoys his football more.”
Only Fabregas disagrees. “They are both a pain in the butt – between them they never let me sleep, they are always tormenting me and not one squad get-together passes without one or other of them trying to catch me out in one way or another.”
On either side of the two pillars are two more characters. Ramos, the most expensive Spaniard transferred between two La Liga clubs is the guy who arrived at the Bernabeu wet behind the ears but ready to claim: “I want Fernando Hierro’s shirt number and I want to emulate his achievements with Madrid.”
It went down like a proctologist at a finger buffet – but with maturity he has become one of Europe’s most powerful
and dynamic defenders. With a strong possibility Jose Mourinho will either convert him to an out-and-out centre-half or sell him to AC Milan there are golden years ahead for the Andalucian.
Nevertheless, he complains: “I never wanted to be a footballer when I was growing up, I wanted to be a bullfighter
but my mum would never let me because she was too scared. I have had to calm down a little over the years because if I admitted all the tricks I used to get up to when I was younger then they’d probably clap me in jail. That has probably helped me in football terms because when I play centre-half for Madrid it is a less free, more demanding role where concentration is at a premium.”
Throw in the fact that captain Casillas
is a flinty, rock-hard competitor and you have the Dirty Half Dozen (Casillas,
Puyol, Pique, Ramos, Capdevila and Marchena) who maintain La Roja’s defensive purity. Except that the final statistic to is that dirty they are not.
Pique is scrupulous about winning the ball cleanly and is rarely suspended, and in the group stage Spain became the first team since 1986 to avoid a single yellow card. Both the Spain and Barcelona
coaches tend to have consistency of selection as a weapon because, for all their physical force, Pique and Puyol play the ball, not the man.
And, above all, they don’t care if you love Villa or Xavi, or El Nino more than them. “You get used to being undervalued or less famous because it is the winning that counts” admits Puyol.
History will remember this Spain squad fondly, but without the Dirty Half Dozen they’d be nothing.
Graham Hunter
Study tries to evaluate performances of players
Yet they tied as the two best players at Euro 2008. At least according to a study out of Northwestern University's engineering school, which tried to quantify the performances of soccer players.
The report was published Wednesday in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
Luis Amaral knows he isn't exactly unbiased when it comes to watching his beloved Portugal. The Northwestern engineering professor wanted to find a way to objectively evaluate players in a sport with few statistics because of the rarity of goals.
"When things are going well, I think they're playing better than they truly are," Amaral, the study's senior author, said in a phone interview Tuesday not long after Portugal tied Ivory Coast 0-0 in a World Cup match. "When they're not going well, I'm probably harsher than I should be."
Amaral and colleagues Jordi Duch and Josh Waitzman did a computer analysis of the play-by-play from each Euro 2008 game. The best players would be the ones who most often touched the ball as part of a sequence that resulted in a shot.
Of the 20 players with the highest scores for the tournament, eight made the all-tournament team. Amaral said that indicates the computer analysis is an accurate tool.
He believes it would be most valuable for scouting lower-level events and comparing players across different leagues and different seasons. Just as statistical analysis has influenced how baseball teams spend their millions, he predicts soccer clubs could follow suit.
"You start to ask, Are these players you're paying this amount of money to actually performing at that level?" Amaral said.
He suggested this type of analysis could also be helpful in basketball, even though the sport, unlike soccer, produces a plethora of stats. Assists are a widely used indicator, but what about the pass that led to the pass that led to the score?
These evaluations could even extend into business, measuring the individual contributions of employees working as a group.
Spain's Ramos may want to show this study to any potential future employers. The Real Madrid defender got off to a rocky start at Euro 2008, getting beat for a goal against Sweden and arguing with his coach at a practice.
But he wound up being a key cog in Spain's run to the championship — and apparently was just as important in his team scoring all-important goals as the much-honored Xavi.
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The top 20 players at Euro 2008 as determined by the computer analysis:
T1. Sergio Ramos, Spain
T1. Xavi Hernandez, Spain
3. Marcos Senna, Spain
4. David Silva, Spain
5. Wesley Sneijder, Netherlands
T6. Deco, Portugal
T6. Joan Capdevila, Spain
8. Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
9. David Villa, Spain
T10. Armando Petit, Portugal
T10. Cesc Fabregas, Spain
T10. Carlos Marchena, Spain
T10. Gokhan Inler, Switzerland
T14. Jose Bosingwa, Portugal
T14. Rafael van der Vaart, Netherlands
T16. Ruud van Nistelrooy, Netherlands
T16. Ivan Rakitic, Croatia
T16. Nigel de Jong, Netherlands
T19. Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russia
T19. Andre Ooijer, Netherlands
SERGIO RAMOS
Researchers find a new approach to ranking and rating soccer players
Amaral, now a professor at Northwestern University, combined his love of soccer with his research team's computational skills to measure and rank the success of soccer players based on an objective measure of performance instead of opinion. The results of the study are published in PLoS ONE, a journal published by the Public Library of Science.
Through their analysis, Amaral and his team were able to objectively rank the performances of all the players in the 2008 European Cup tournament. Their results closely matched the general consensus of sports reporters who covered the matches as well as the team of experts, coaches and managers that subjectively chose players for the "best of" tournament teams.
"In soccer there are relatively few big things that can be counted," said Amaral, professor of chemical and biological engineering with the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and senior author of the paper. "You can count how many goals someone scores, but if a player scores two goals in a match, that's amazing. You can really only divide two or three goals or two or three assists among, potentially, eleven players. Most of the players will have nothing to quantify their performance at the end of the match."
To find a quantitative way to rank players, co-author and Northwestern graduate student Josh Waitzman first wrote software to pull play-by-play statistical information from the 2008 Euro Cup website. This type of extensive statistical information is usually only gathered for important matches, Amaral said. Amaral and Jordi Duch, the paper's first author and an assistant professor of applied math and computer science at Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Spain, used the data to quantify the performance of players by generalizing methods from social network analysis.
"You can define a network in which the elements of the network are your players," Amaral said. "Then you have connections between the players if they make passes from one to another. Also, because their goal is to score, you can include another element in this network, which is the goal."
Amaral's team mapped out the flow of the soccer ball between players in the network as well as shooting information and analyzed the results.
"We looked at the way in which the ball can travel and finish on a shot," said Amaral, who also is a member of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and an Early Career Scientist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "The more ways a team has for a ball to travel and finish on a shot, the better that team is. And, the more times the ball goes through a given player to finish in a shot, the better that player performed."
"It would never happen by chance that we would get such striking agreement with the consensus opinion of so many experts if our measure wasn't good," Amaral said.
He says this kind of analysis can be used outside of the soccer world, too. Companies could use the method to rank and evaluate the performance of employees working together on a team project, for example.
The title of the paper is "Quantifying the Performance of Individual Players in a Team Activity."
The National Science Foundation supported the research.
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Spain vs Switzerland
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:00AM
So the day has finally come!!! From dark horse to fiery steed, España were changed forever by the Euro. Thanks to Torres's goal against Germany and Fàbregas's penalty against Italy, La Selección finally won a major tournament – and a new identity. A new mentality. Declaring themselves favorites is nothing new but this time, more than ever, Spaniards truly believe it.
As I have quoted Cesc before, let's hope this will continue to be the case:
Un día nuestros nietos leerán esto en los libros de Historia: "El fútbol es un deporte que fue inventado por los ingleses en el siglo XIX y que siguió su desarrollo en el XX e inicios del XXI. Pero en el año 2008 apareció un equipo que apodaban La Roja e inventó el sky-football (fútbol celestial)".
And now my English translation: One day our grandchildren will read this in the history books: "Football is a sport that was invented by the British in the nineteenth century and continued its development in the twentieth and early twenty-first. But in 2008 appeared a team, nicknamed "The Red" and invented the sky-football (heavenly soccer). "
Un día nuestros nietos leerán esto en los libros de Historia: "El fútbol es un deporte que fue inventado por los ingleses en el siglo XIX y que siguió su desarrollo en el XX e inicios del XXI. Pero en el año 2008 apareció un equipo que apodaban La Roja e inventó el sky-football (fútbol celestial)".
And now my English translation: One day our grandchildren will read this in the history books: "Football is a sport that was invented by the British in the nineteenth century and continued its development in the twentieth and early twenty-first. But in 2008 appeared a team, nicknamed "The Red" and invented the sky-football (heavenly soccer). "
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