FIFA’s adoption of Video Assistant Referees at the 2018 World Cup has been conspicuous. Play halts, the video board signals a review, and the losing side inevitably gripes about the...
The billion-dollar partnership between STATSports Group and the U.S. Soccer Federation, which the parties announced earlier this year, will encourage all members — whether part of the national teams or youth academies — to wear tracking devices but will not collect player-specific data from academy players. U.S. Soccer is collecting player-specific data only from its […]
NEW YORK — Purdue’s Isaac Haas is a mountain of a man, a skilled 7-foot-2, 290-pound basketball player who can change the game on both ends of the floor. Behind all the big-time dunks and blocks, there’s a small, lightweight device that Haas wears on his back during practice that is helping the team. A […]
Every senior professional rugby player in Ireland will soon have access to performance monitoring and GPS tracking technology thanks to a new partnership. The providers of the technology, STATSports, has inked the deal with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the authorities of the sport in Ireland. Players will have access to STATSports’ “Apex” device. […]
STATSports‘ state-of-the-art Apex system tracks player performance during training and games. It’s used by major leagues like the NFL, NBA, La Liga and English Premier League. For the system, one piece of equipment does most of the heavy lifting — the GPS antenna. That’s why STATSports has selected Taoglas as its antenna solution. Taoglas antennas […]
