[kictanet] Germany scours university data for tips to beat Brazil, coach says

Wed Jul 9 10:48:57 EAT 2014

Ali,

How many coaches would have singled-out that they would *love* to meet
Brazil, the host nation and when they do they thrash them 7 ?

I think they had the antidote to Samba Football, and this antidote had a
lot to do with that article... :-)

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Much as I love Big Data, Analytics and such..Surely you guys are not
> suggesting that is what beat Brazil? :)
>
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> On Jul 9, 2014, at 10:31 AM, "S.M. Muraya via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Article notes Germany has beaten all the teams they have played at the
> 2014 World Cup except Ghana who they drew with.  Suspect they did not
> bother studying the African side as much as they did Brazil.
>
> Your recommendation to involve/invest in smart/ethical students to secure
> Kenya is very sensible to persons who challenge our youth to improve by
> demonstrating courage/ethics or competence/expertise.
>
> Think about how data analytics can be applied to study patterns linking
> terrorist entry into Kenya or drugs smuggling through Kenya to certain
> public officials at our customs and/or immigration departments.
>
> We rarely succeed locally in getting anyone (in IT, Sales, Marketing or
> Corporate Governance) to invest in Data Analytics.
>
> We have heard it is too "expensive" to invest in data analytic
> tools/skills if it costs the same as 4WDs popular with public officials and
> corporate hot shots.
>  On Jul 9, 2014 9:58 AM, "Ngigi Waithaka" <ngigi at at.co.ke> wrote:
>
>> I like this ...
>>
>> “*We’re very, very well-prepared and we’re looking forward to playing
>> Brazil*,”
>>
>> The one team everyone would be wary of meeting is the one team they would
>> *love* to meet, and when they do, they thrash them totally...
>>
>> Victory loves preparation....
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:49 AM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> About Data Analytics :)
>>>
>>> http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0FC1I620140707?irpc=932
>>>
>>> Germany scours university data for tips to beat Brazil, coach says
>>>
>>> Mon, Jul 07 11:02 AM EDT
>>> [image: image]
>>>
>>> By Erik Kirschbaum
>>>
>>> SANTO ANDRE Brazil (Reuters) - That no European team has won any of the
>>> previous six World Cups in Latin America is not a daunting prospect for
>>> Germany as they head into Tuesday's World Cup semi-final against hosts
>>> Brazil, according to assistant coach Hansi Flick.
>>>
>>> Three-times World Cup winners Germany are confident that two years of
>>> meticulous university research combined with their own scouting and
>>> preparations for the conditions will give them an edge against five-times
>>> winners Brazil on their home turf.
>>>
>>> “We’re very, very well-prepared and we’re looking forward to playing
>>> Brazil,” Flick told reporters when asked about how Germany planned to ended
>>> the dominance of Latin American teams when playing in their own region.
>>>
>>> “We’ve been working on this project for the last two years and our
>>> entire system has been built up for that.”
>>>
>>> Germany are undefeated in Brazil but haven't had to face a Latin
>>> American team yet: their four wins were against Portugal, the United
>>> States, Algeria and France with a draw against Ghana.
>>>
>>> Major European rivals such as Spain, Italy and England have already been
>>> beaten or knocked out by South American teams.
>>>
>>> Flick said to get ready for South American teams Germany have benefited
>>> from a giant data base put together by a team of about 50 students at
>>> Cologne’s sport university over the last two years.
>>>
>>> That information, combined with scouting reports, has been used for
>>> detailed analyses of Brazil and their players.
>>>
>>> “The sports students in Cologne have been studying in great detail our
>>> opponent and put every play they’ve run, every newspaper article on them,
>>> and everything about them out there under the microscope and made all that
>>> data available to us,” Flick said at Germany’s base camp on the Atlantic
>>> coast in Northeastern Brazil.
>>>
>>> “We’ve got this enormous data base to draw upon and, together with our
>>> scouts, we’re able to take a close look at our opponent and make our plans
>>> for the match. It’s a project we’ve been working on intensively for the
>>> last two years. We’ve been able to cull some very high quality information
>>> from all the data from the students. It’s very much helped us prepare.”
>>>
>>> Germany have been turning to the student researchers at the Deutsche
>>> Sporthochschule Koeln increasingly over the last decade. Former Germany
>>> coach Juergen Klinsmann first began tapping the data accumulated by the
>>> students, most of whom are soccer enthusiasts and thrilled to be working on
>>> a project that could possibly help, even in a small way, to win the World
>>> Cup.
>>>
>>> While the students are sworn to secrecy about their intelligence
>>> gathering, their Professor Juergen Buschmann headed the project has been
>>> quoted in German newspapers saying the students use an eclectic variety of
>>> sources to chronicle such things as how players react in pressure
>>> situations, what are their preferred routes, how do they react when fouled,
>>> what gets under skin and how do they sprint for the ball?
>>>
>>> He said the one trend that he was at liberty to reveal was that top
>>> teams change their tactics frequently but provided no further details - not
>>> surprising but tantalizing nevertheless.
>>>
>>> The intelligence has come into special focus for the World Cup in Brazil
>>> in part because Germany has never won here on the continent with their
>>> three World Cup titles won in Switzerland (1954), West Germany (1974) and
>>> Italy (1990).
>>>
>>> (Reporting By Erik Kirschbaum, Editing by Nigel Hunt)
>>>
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