Southgate chose penalty takers according to algorithm

 At Euro 2020 the English coach Gareth Southgate would have chosen the five penalty takers - and also the batting order - according to an algorithm. The Spanish newspaper El Pais writes today, citing sources from the English football federation. El País points out that "of the 30 players who have taken a penalty at these European Championships, only Saka and Sancho are under 22 years old. Furthermore, Saka had never shot one in his entire career. Southgate's response to the managers, alarmed. for the choice, it was as unprecedented as it is modern. The choice of the quintet was the product of years of elaborate data analysis by scientists from the most funded department of all football associations in the world. The experts, incorporated into the structure of the federation under the direction of Executive Director Mark Bullingham,they followed a method based on mathematical models popularly known as Big Data, coming from baseball, the most linear of team games. "The Spanish newspaper also points out that even the order of the shooters in the final with Italy (Kane, Maguire, Rashford, Sancho and Saka) was suggested by analysts. There was a happy precedent. When England beat Colombia on penalties at the World Cup in Russia. Southgate referred to a cultural shift in a conference organized by Google Cloud, a sponsor of the federation, two years ago. El País writes that when asked about the influence of artificial intelligence in the preparation of penalties, the English coach explained that Google's programs had opened the horizon. "We have analyzed thousands of shots - he said - we have changed our culture. Historically, the British federation is seen as a group of old men in suits, disconnected from the rest of society. We had to modernize. "The Spanish newspaper highlights that the outcome of Wembley is placed alongside the great precedents, the mistakes of people like" Maradona, Zico, Platini, Baggio, Baresi, Cristiano, Ramos, Raul or Djokic, champions who have proved the inexistence of an infallible formula to score a penalty. The real news is not the failure of stars and captains - we read - but that of young people with little or no experience, selected through Google ".disconnected from the rest of society. We had to modernize. "The Spanish newspaper highlights that the outcome of Wembley is placed alongside the great precedents, the mistakes of people like" Maradona, Zico, Platini, Baggio, Baresi, Cristiano, Ramos, Raul or Djokic, champions who have proved the inexistence of an infallible formula to score a penalty. The real news is not the failure of stars and captains - we read - but that of young people with little or no experience, selected through Google ".disconnected from the rest of society. We had to modernize. "The Spanish newspaper highlights that the outcome of Wembley is placed alongside the great precedents, the mistakes of people like" Maradona, Zico, Platini, Baggio, Baresi, Cristiano, Ramos, Raul or Djokic, champions who have proved the inexistence of an infallible formula to score a penalty. The real news is not the failure of stars and captains - we read - but that of young people with little or no experience, selected through Google ".non-existence of an infallible formula to score a penalty. The real news is not the failure of stars and captains - we read - but that of young people with little or no experience, selected through Google ".non-existence of an infallible formula to score a penalty. The real news is not the failure of stars and captains - we read - but that of young people with little or no experience, selected through Google ".