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On July 6, in the semi-finals of the Euro, the Spanish midfielder Pedri, aged only 18, "
did not miss any of his 31 passes in the first period
" against Italy, informed the major American media ESPN .
Presented in this way, the statistics seem resounding.
For the general public, at least.
Not for the seasoned experts we interviewed, with a view to better understanding what is called “data”.
To discover
Calendar and results Ligue 1
League 1 standings
Baptiste*, who works in the recruitment cell of a Ligue 1 club, takes the subject very seriously.
"In football, we liked to have 'intellectual masturbation' on numbers that made no sense in relation to the game,"
he laments.
Born in the 1990s, advanced statistics took root in the United States, in baseball, before being exported sportingly and geographically.
First in England, “
a more mature market than the others, and still today
”, points out Antoine David, manager…
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