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Profile: Romario = brain type #4, the Romantic
Autonomy Romário, a retired Brazilian footballer and now a politician, is often associated with a high degree of autonomy. This is due to several factors: Antagonistic Romário, throughout his career as a footballer and later as a politician, has exhibited traits associated with antagonism. Here are a few reasons why: Belligerent Romário’s high score on…
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Profile: Ronaldo = brain type #2, the Helper
Exploitation In the context of football, “exploitation” often refers to the ability to take full advantage and derive benefit from opportunities on the field. In the case of a football player like Cristiano Ronaldo, these opportunities would include scoring chances, defensive weaknesses, and advantageous matchups. Openness for Experience Openness to Experience is a personality trait…
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Profile: Ruud Gullit = brain type #3 the Successfull Worker
Exploitation In football terms, “exploitation” typically refers to a player’s or a team’s ability to take advantage of the weaknesses or mistakes of the opposing team. This can be done in various ways, such as exploiting gaps in the defense, taking advantage of a goalkeeper’s poor positioning, or capitalizing on a defender’s lack of speed…
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Loyalty, recruitment, brain types and the ABC-model
Player agents often complain about the lack of loyalty of the players they have signed. They assume that loyalty is an inherent trait some players have and others don’t. Of course, it is painful to see one of your biggest talents sign with a different agency just before their big breakthrough. In most cases leaving…
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Profile: Pep Guardiola = brain type #1, the Perfectionist
Social Stability Pep Guardiola, as a football manager, is known for his leadership skills, strategic acumen, and ability to build strong, cohesive teams. These qualities could contribute to a high score in Social Stability, which often refers to a person’s ability to maintain stable, positive relationships with others and contribute to the stability of their…
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General introduction to the personality of football players based on Cybernetic Big Five Theory
To start first a quote of one of the football agents that use this system for better understanding and supporting their players: Just wanna let you know about my first meeting with the player yesterday.Spend 2 hours talking about #3 successful worker.He was blown away and could definitely see himself in the things I presented…
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Davy Klaassen to Ajax
Based on the Wyscout data for the 43 matches Klaassen played for Werder Bremen in season 19/20 & 20/21, he has: 86% probability that he is able to contribute to the Werder Bremen overall, 5% probability that he is able to contribute to the attack of Werder Bremen, 97% probability that he is able to…
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Shadow team born this century anonymized
To track how we are doing in finding talent at a relative early age (20 years or younger, from 2024 on players need to be born 2004 or later), we publish our shadow team anonymized and keep track of how these players are doing. As soon as any of these players transfer to another club…
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Relative strength MLS
Here is the list of the relative strength of teams in the MLS based on their performance in the previous season according to Wyscout data. If it were a simple competition than this would also be our prediction for the league table. Previously predictions like these have had a 80% correlation with the actual league…
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Showcase: Niklas Dorsch
Niklas Dorsch is a defensive midfielder of Heidenheim, playing in 2. Bundesliga. Dorsch has been on our radar for the last couple of years and with only one year left at Heidenheim, he is an interesting player to follow. He plays for Germany U21. We think he would do well in 1. Bundesliga. For that…