A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to make a football team successful, and many of the off-the-feild contributors to that success are often overlooked. Well, publicly at least.
But beyond the manager, his staff and players, there are also fitness coaches, nutritionists, physiotherapists, scouts, analysts and now more commonly, data scientists.
PhDs and football don’t traditionally go hand in hand, and for many years the benefits of analytics in the game were either overlooked or sometimes even ridiculed. Yet now a data science department is considered a must-have for any forward-thinking football club.
