A new scouting platform built by a teenager in Delhi and adopted by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) last month seeks to level the playing field in India by unearthing talent in rural regions that might have otherwise been overlooked. Kush Pandey, a 17-year-old soccer player, came up with the idea for ScoutMe […]
In a Champions League match in 2015, Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola surprised everyone when he opened play by having his club mark Barcelona — and its brilliant strikers Messi, Neymar and Suarez — in a man-to-man defensive alignment all over the pitch. Sky Sports analyst Gary Neville went on a long-winded speech about how […]
The U.S. Soccer Federation has hired Irish wearables company STATSports to provide monitoring devices for its four million registered soccer players in the United States. Valued at over $1.5 billion, according to a statement released by the companies, the deal aims to create the world’s largest player data monitoring program and act as a first […]
NEW YORK — The origin story for Bleacher Report Live — Turner Sports’ soon-to-launch OTT platform offering a personalized live sports hub — dates to finding a solution for a very real Saturday afternoon need. A group of friends a few years ago were out at a lakehouse scouring the dial for an SMU football […]
The UAE Pro League announced on Tuesday that it plans to broadcast full, live soccer matches in virtual reality to fans around the world via an iOS and Android mobile app. The virtual broadcasts, called the AGLeague VR Seat Experience project, will be produced in partnership with UAE mobile wireless giant Etisalat and communications company […]
