How Guardiola Turned City’s Season Around With Space Manipulation
With Man City now crowned as Premier League champions, we look back at how Pep Guardiola drove the tactical change that led his team to triumph. During Guardiola’s 13-year coaching career, concepts like the functionality of players over their role, collective participation, different variations of…
Wyscout Meetup 2021: Tackling Transfer Negotiations in a One-Day Virtual Networking Event
After almost a whole year of travel restrictions and remote working, virtual meetings have become a regular part of the scouting and transfer process. That’s why, back in November, we launched our first-ever virtual edition of Wyscout Forum, allowÂing parÂticÂiÂpaÂtion from the comÂfort of homes,…
Wyscout Forum 2020: The World’s #1 Event in Football for Transfer Negotiations Goes Virtual
Even with the globÂal panÂdemÂic rolling on, the world of footÂball transÂfers nevÂer sleeps. And so, the Wyscout Forum remains as cruÂcial as ever to proÂvide high-valÂue netÂworkÂing opporÂtuÂniÂties to clubs, interÂmeÂdiÂaries and agenÂcies worldÂwide — albeit with one key difÂferÂence in 2020. This year Wyscout Forum went…
Developing Your Player Portfolio With Wyscout
Identifying talent is one of sport’s most competitive challenges. With a perpetual search for the next star player, the process of talent identification has evolved to become a major industry for clubs and independent intermediaries. This has seen a shift from “luck” to “design” via…
Promoting Your Players with Wyscout
Promoting players to favorable clubs is a challenging task and can often involve many hours spent talking to club representatives around the world to find a suitable fit for the player and club. An intermediaries network is one of its most important assets but forging…
Using Benchmarking to Monitor Your Player Portfolio With Wyscout
In part 2 of our blog series on how the Wyscout platform can help intermediaries to become more efficient and more effective in their role we look at the role of data when monitoring player performance. Pt. 1: Using Video and Stats to Monitoring Your…
Using Video and Stats to Monitor Your Player Portfolio With Wyscout
Negotiating and agreeing player transfers is a complex and hugely competitive business. Agencies and intermediaries who understand and implement a greater application of video and data are speaking in the new language of football, allowing them to connect the right player to the right club…
Gareth Jennings: Systemic Thinking – The Future Technical Director
In this session from the 2020 Wyscout Forum, guest speaker Gareth Jennings, Head of Technical Leadership at FIFA, looks at the role of systemic thinking and why it’s an important consideration for future technical/sporting directors in the modern game. Register your interest in future events…
Lucy Rushton – The Role of Data Analysis in Player Recruitment at Atlanta United FC
Attendees to the 2020 virtual Wyscout Forum had the benefit of learning from Atlanta United’s Head of Technical Recruitment and Analysis, Lucy Rushton, and how her team uses data to complement the subjective scouting process and bring additional rigor to the different stages of the…
Dr. Alex Bond – A Network Analysis Of The European Loan System
The loan system used in professional football has evolved significantly since the law was changed in 2003. In the modern game, the percentage of loans has steadily increased over the last 4 seasons with the greatest annual increase in the recent 2020 summer transfer window,…
James Kerr: Winning DNA – The Role of Culture in Creating Champions
Wyscout Forum 2020 wrote another chapter in the history of our company, being our first-ever virtual event. Alongside two days of intense networking and transfer negotiations, we offered our attendees top-class speakers, to share insights and best practices for personal and professional development. In this…
Generate Accurate Football Predictions by Training Your Algorithms with Wyscout Data
Train your prediction algorithms with the largest football dataset: data and videos from 300+ leagues globally to boost the accuracy of your predictions. —- Wyscout’s football data offering: 2,000 new matches every week with 2,000 events documented in every match. That adds up to…
Wyscout Talks: Wolves’ Head of Recruitment, John Marshall
During the last edition of Wyscout Forum, held in the beautiful rooms of the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam, we had the chance to get insights about the world of scouting and recruitment directly from two prominent persons of English football. After hearing from Leeds…
Wyscout Talks: Leeds United’s Director of Football, Victor Orta
A few months ago, while we were in the beautiful Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam for the 2019 edition of Wyscout Forum, we had the chance to spend some time with one of our conference speakers: Leeds United Director of Football, Victor Orta. During his…
The ‘Speed-dating of Football’ is back in Amsterdam
We’re thrilled to announce that the next edition of Wyscout Forum – the world’s leading event for football transfer negotiations and global scouting of players – will be held at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, in Amsterdam (NL), on November 13-14, 2019. Strategically settled during the…
Andrea Maldera – the match analysis evolution and working with ‘Sheva’ in Ukraine
Have you noticed one emerging national team in the European landscape recently? Of course, we’re talking about Ukraine, that has won the U20 FIFA World Cup last June and that is currently leading the European qualifiers’ Group B. A few months ago, we had the…
A message from Matteo Campodonico
With the largest database of global football video and data now connected to Hudl’s end-to-end analysis platform, it’s easier than ever to find talent, share content and collaborate. Following yesterday’s announcement that Wyscout would be joining Hudl, the industry-leading performance analysis platform, I wanted…
Wyscout Talks: Andoni Zubizarreta & Albert Valentin
Through the Wyscout blog, in the last few months, we have taken a look at the inner workings of the football world, showing you some of the things that take place away from the TV cameras. We have heard what the head scout of a…
Wyscout Talks: ProEleven
Among all type of professionals working in the football world, one of the less known, more misunderstood and less described – if not from a very superficial point of view – is the football agent. We are talking about a critical role of the Beautiful…
Interview with Columbus Morfaw, Player Relations & Competition at MLS
In the last few years, the Major League Soccer has made some massive steps ahead in the mission of achieving the goal it has set for itself: to be ranked among the world’s best leagues by 2022. Thanks to the development of the academies to…
Wyscout Talks: Fabio Papagni, Scouting Coordinator at UC Sampdoria
It’s not a mystery how in football attention is focused on what happens on the “main stage”: the football pitch. Results, performances, tactics, everything is analyzed with maniacal meticulousness, taking up the first pages of newspapers, sports channels and even the bar talks. Only a…
Stats Corner: Expected Goals
In a football world stuffed with technology and big data, it can be hard to untangle from the impressive amount of stats, indexes, and algorithms that nowadays represent the basis for the study and analysis of games, training, and players. In fact, in the last…
Wyscout on ZDF: the work of a talent scout explained
Among the many aspects that are part of life in the world of football, the talent scout profession is certainly one of the less well-defined for most people. Of course, any enthusiast or insider could perfectly explain what a scout does in details, but not…
Discover the brand new Wyscout App
Wyscout is the world leading football scouting company with thousands of player profiles, hundreds of matches analyzed every weekend and a multitude of tools dedicated to the game’s professionals. These tools will be now available on mobile phones and tablets thanks to the new-look Wyscout…
Wyscout’s Teams of the Season so far
In every self-respecting season in history, the last days of the year are always the best time to sum up what has happened so far, even if several leagues – historically the Premier League and from this year Serie A as well – won’t even…
Wyscout Forum 2018, another record-breaking edition
They say records are made to be broken, and that’s probably why, for the second year in a row, Wyscout Forum has made history. The 2018 edition of the “Speed-date of Football” has once again been a record-breaking one, outdoing last year’s event at Stamford…
Wyscout Forum 2018 Conferences: the schedule
In less than two weeks, hundreds of football professionals will meet once again, this time for the 2018 edition of Wyscout Forum. This year’s event, held at the beautiful Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam on November 19-20, will provide two days of networking and transfer negotiations…
Wyscout Forum 2018 to be held at Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam
In less than twenty days, hundreds of clubs representatives, agents, scouts, media, guests, and VIPs will fill the beautiful areas of the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam, for the 2018 edition of the Wyscout Forum. Since its very first edition in 2011, Wyscout Forum has…
Stats, videos and ‘Sheva’: Wyscout meets Ukraine’s Taras Stepanenko
We are in the lobby of the Savoia Hotel in Genoa, Italy. We are a few hours ahead of the friendly match between the Azzurri and Ukraine (ended with a 1-1 draw) and we’re waiting to meet Shakhtar Donetsk’s central midfielder Taras Stepanenko. When he meets us in…
Wyscout officially announces the partnership with Liga MX
An important cooperation, with one of the most prestigious and passionate leagues in the world. Wyscout is happy to officially announce the partnership with Liga MX, that will bring the sports technology world leading platform to all the clubs of the Mexican championship, Liga de Ascenso…
Penalties aren’t a lottery anymore
If there’s an aspect of football that has always had a feature of unpredictability, that has to be the penalty kick. Whether is kicked during a World Cup final or a youth tournament, penalties have always been considered some sort of random lotto and that’s why…
Wyscout meets Stephen Constantine, the most travelled coach in the world
We’ve talked to Stephen Constantine, India National Team Head Coach, to find out more on his amazing experience and trade secrets.
How to become Sports Director? Wyscout meets Marseille’s Albert Valentin
Albert Valentin, Deputy Sports Manager at Olympique de Marseille and FC Barcelona‘s former Technical Secretary, talks with Wyscout to explain how he started his career and how he has become one of the most influential personality in the football environment. Valentin gives us a rich…
3 reasons why you should discover the potential of the new Wyscout stats
Studying stats has never been so easy with Wyscout. Here you have 3 good reasons why you should discover the potential of the new Wyscout stats. They are accessible, intuitive and clear. With this new setup, you can study each match or the entire season, just a…
Wyscout intervista mister Gasperini
Siamo andati a Zingonia, nel centro sportivo dell’Atalanta, per parlare di calcio con Gian Piero Gasperini. Con il tecnico nerazzurro abbiamo parlato di temi cari alla figura dell’allenatore: dalla formazione, passando per la preparazione e la gestione di un gruppo. Per trasmettere ai lettori del…
Wyscout meets coach Gasperini
An open conversation with the Serie A coach Gian Piero Gasperini on coaching, training and team management in order to share invaluable advice with Wyscout Blog readers. – CLICCA QUI PER LEGGERE L’INTERVISTA IN ITALIANO – Let’s start with beginning a career as a coach. How…
Set pieces: the best way to study your opponent’s free kicks
Studying your opponent’s set pieces has never been so easy. In fact, with Set Pieces, a product on the Wyscout platform, players, managers and video analysts have access to the entire archive of set pieces, for and against the team that they want to analyse….
The huge success of last Wyscout Forum at Stamford Bridge by numbers
The latest Wyscout Forum, held at Stamford Bridge on November 7-8, 2017 will be remembered as the record-breaking edition. Stamford Bridge was for 2 days the heart of transfer negotiations and global networking. Manchester City, Juventus, Arsenal, Santos, Roma, Liverpool and Galatasaray were just a few of the clubs that attended…
Wyscout Forum is back: the world’s leading transfer market event to start at Stamford Bridge
Wyscout Forum is back. The must-attend event for football decision-makers is going to be held on November 7th-8th at the iconic Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge. An exclusive occasion to meet in one single place clubs, players’ agents and decision-makers from all over the world to start…
Mourinho’s excellent match preparation in Europa League Final
The challenge between Josè Mourinho’s pragmatism and Peter Bosz’s offensive idealism followed a basic script to the letter: Mourinho gave the ball to Ajax (31% total possession, the lowest percentage in a European final along with Simeone’s Atletico in 2012 and his own Inter in 2010), leaving Bosz’s team dealing with the question of what to do with it.
Unique new experience on training and match analysis with Wyscout – Spiideo partnership
Wyscout, the leading professional digital platform for football clubs, together with Spiideo, provider of state of the art sports video recording and analysis solutions, today announced the signing of a global partnership agreement