Coaches have long worked with a wealth of training data in the sports world, including soccer. The first division teams, for example, were the first to integrate new technologies, since the measurement and evaluation of physiological parameters have always been part of the job description of their physical trainers. During training and matches, first without the ball and then with the ball, the coaching team can easily record the speed, acceleration and distance covered by the players. Today, this data is also analyzed using artificial intelligence (AI). Coaches integrate the acquired information into their training plans, derive load profiles and manage the sessions. AI can now also be used to plan and analyze complex training content with a ball.
Daniel Memmert is involved in the scientific aspects of these developments. Memmert is professor and managing director of the Institute of Training Sciences and Sports Informatics at the University German Sport University Cologne. He has published numerous (specialist) publications, e.g. on data analysis in football, and conducts research on behalf of the German Football Association and the German Football League, among others. For ISPO.com, it gives a forecast of the extent to which AI will change sport and shows what is possible today in elite sport and what will soon be possible in recreational sport thanks to AI.
