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Wednesday 03/20
☕️🍀⚽️ Good morning everyone! Soccer in the USA is not slowing down anytime soon. In addition to International friendlies happening during this International break and Copa America, we will be seeing 5 of the biggest clubs in Europe kick off their 2024/2025 preseason in our backyard. “Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City and AC Milan will participate in a pre-season series in the United States ahead of the 2024-25 campaign”. Check out the full article here
Giveaway: Wake up and smell the coffee. Our giveaway will be a $30 gift card for our favorite coffee brand- Kickoff Coffee. As always, each friend that you refer to subscribe to the newsletter is an entry to our raffle. Best of luck!
Business
Drive to Survive meets Soccer
FC Versailles
💵💼 Pierre Gasly, Formula 1 Driver, invests in French club. Looks like Gasly has read up on a couple business books since the popular rise in Formula 1 as he’s looking to diversify his money. Third tier FC Versailles is the lucky club to get a new investor this year. Gasly joins the likes of many high profile investors in non top flight soccer clubs. Many of these investors are looking to follow the footsteps of Wrexham FC, a club that Ryan Reyn olds and Rob Mcelhenney have turned around all while filming a great documentary show.
Wednesday’s ICYMI
Women’s Champions League Quarter-final
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English Woman’s Soccer League
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Technology
AI Takes the Pitch
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🎏🌽🤖 Corner taken quickly… or so would have predicted an AI model. Meet Deepmind, an artificial intelligence model that can predict the outcome of corner kicks in football matches and help coaches design tactics that increase or decrease the probability of a player taking a shot and/or banking a goal.
TacticAI was trained on data from 7176 corner kicks in England’s 2020 to 2021 Premier League season , including each player’s position over time and their height and weight
It learned to predict which player would be the first to touch the ball after the corner kick was taken
whether a shot will be taken, and how to adjust player setup
Specifically, Google DeepMind teamed up with Liverpool FC to develop Tactician, with hopes to gather insights on corner kicks and player setups. If 2019 Champions League semi-final has taught us anything, it’s that Liverpool for sure is the team to study their cornerbacks. Well what do you know, Liverpool seems to have found their replacement for Klopp after all.
Quick Bites 🍕
Matches to Catch
Women’s Champions League Quarter-final
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UEFA Nations League A Euro Semi-Final
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CONCACAF Nations League A Champions Semi-Final
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International Friendlies
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Banter of the Day
Football, by the fans for the fans
In search of a pub? Ever find yourself in a new city and are desperately searching for a local soccer pub? Who would have thought that the premier league took time out of their day to create a bar finder. There really is nothing better than catching an early premier league game on the weekends with fellow fans of the game, and finding that bar that will actually have the game sound on just got that much easier.
USA Bar Finder. Bar finder, aka Intern Jose’s nickname in college. Easy to use search platform on the premier leagues website. It has most major cities included, and they’re even accepting updates to their list if you email them at [email protected]
Find your local soccer pub here.