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Football hasn't changed
Football hasn’t changed at all in the last three world championships. This is the main conclusion of a study carried out by a team of researchers from the University of the Basque Country.
According to researchers at the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, if we focused exclusively on the game, we would not be able to distinguish between the matches of the world championships France 1998 and Germany 2006.
Vitoria, Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences.
On the college football field, a group of students prepares to play the game in front of the Teknopolis cameras. Our cameras, however, will not be the only ones that will receive the ups and downs of the match. The match will also be recorded by these cameras located at the top of the building next to the field. Then, the images that the cameras collect will be used to analyze the game.
After receiving the usual instructions from the technicians, everything is ready for the match to start.
During the game, images from cameras located around the football field are sent to a computer. What happens
in the field will be analyzed through a computer program developed by the research team itself. Because video images and software windows are displayed simultaneously on the monitor, what happens in the field can be easily captured in the computer program.
Several variables are considered in the study. One of them is the result. In fact, the outcome may condition the evolution of the game. It’s not the same to be tied, to win or lose. Depending on this, the game can be modified.
In the same way they consider where the game takes place, the field. In their research with the World Championships they separated five parts in the field, but today, to carry out the research, they divide the field into 14 parts, which are spaces that are usually worked by coaches and technicians.
Ikertzaileek aztertu duten beste aldagaietako bat elkarrekintza-testuinguruak izendatu direnak dira; hau da, baloiak duen kokapena talde bietako jokalariekiko. It’s about picking up what happens when a team loses the ball, recovers it, the ball is paralyzed, etc. In their research, they have identified 48 situations or levels that can occur in the dynamics of football.
The contexts have been identified by abbreviation, with which it is possible to know where the ball is and who has it.
Taking into account all these variables mentioned, the research team has observed hundreds of hours of football. They usually look at complete rivalries, but to see what the job is like, we’ve only chosen one move.
the red team lost the ball. The front of the right wing goes forward, reaches the bottom line, halves. And the front man's fucking shot. The defender took the ball.” The
same play is analyzed in a different way on the computer. The start of the play takes place in zone 10, and in the RA context, because the ball is between the rear line of the red team being observed and the front line of the opponent. In addition, the mark P is added because the ball has been lost. The researchers, as well as the evolution of this play, will collect everything that happens in this way on the computer.
Julen Castellano; Researcher. The EHU-UPV: Football is the interaction, so much research is done, but only in the analysis of the actions or behavior of the player with the ball. We have raised the point of view in this case and tried to reveal, describe, describe these sequences of relationships between players.
To split a game, they use an average of 8
hours. Let's see another game.
Comparing all the data collected, it is time to draw conclusions. As for the research of the last three world championships, what has been said: football has not changed anything. This conclusion calls into question the supposed open systems of football:
Julen Castellano; Researcher. The EHU-UPV: It is chaotic because we have all the information of a football match, we know what can happen in a match. What we don’t know is when it will happen and how, but what a player can do with the ball is clear: go ahead, stop, give a pass, throw... but when he will do it, there’s the surprise, that’s what football is all about. Nobody knows how the World Cup in South Africa will be played in 2010, but it is clear that if there are
no significant changes in the regulations, the behavior of the players and teams will depend on certain models. In the meantime, the surprises will be due to the unexpected capacity of human beings.
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