Football as a Form of Political Communication for St. Pauli Football Club Supporters

Sports Scheduling: Minimizing Travel for English Football Supporters

The football authorities in England are responsible for generating the fixtures for the entire football season but the fixtures that are played over the Christmas period are given special consideration as they represent the minimum distances that are traveled by supporters when compared with fixtures played at other times of the year. The distances are minimized at this time of the year to save...

Identifying top football players and springboard clubs from a football player collaboration and club transfer networks

We consider all players and clubs in top twenty world football leagues in the last fifteen seasons. The purpose of this paper is to reveal top football players and identify springboard clubs. To do that, we construct two separate weighted networks. Player collaboration network consists of players, that are connected to each other if they ever played together at the same club. In directed club t...

The performance of football club managers: skill or luck?

The Emergence of a Visual Communication Language in Robotic Football

This paper describes a model for the emergence of a visual communication language in a team of robot football. The method is based on using visual stimuli for the transmission of information between players. In order to represent visual stimuli and their meanings, the paper presents visual signs as an abstract and grounded representation. The model and methods presented here are experimentally ...

Muscle injuries in the academy of a Spanish professional football club: A one-year prospective study