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A new training device is claimed to make you a better soccer player, even if you’re practicing by yourself. It’s called Voon Soccer, and it electronically assesses your performance in tens of different skill-building drills.Continue ReadingCategory: Sp… Continue reading Smart soccer trainer let’s you kick it in the face to improve your game
Researchers have found that ingesting low-dose caffeine had both positive and negative effects on the performance of young, experienced soccer players. While there are a lot of factors at play, the findings might be useful for coaches and players to co… Continue reading Caffeine is both good and bad for your soccer skills, study finds
MIT’s Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a Dexterous Ball Manipulation with a Legged Robot (DribbleBot) that can dribble a soccer ball under real-world conditions similar to those encountered by a human player.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading DribbleBot learns to dribble a soccer ball under realistic conditions
Proponent of greenery covered architecture Stefano Boeri Architetti has revealed its design for a soccer stadium and sports complex in Milan, Italy. The ambitious project would include a park and museum, and would be filled with thousands of plants and… Continue reading Stefano Boeri sows seeds for tree-filled International Forest Stadium
Soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, has developed semi-automated offside technology that uses AI, stadium cameras and a connected match ball to assist on-field referees with offside calls at 2022 World Cup matches in Qatar.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Semi-automated offside technology to track players at 2022 soccer World Cup
If you are an American, you’d probably think of [Silas Hansen’s] project as “air soccer” but most people will prefer air football. Either way, it is like air hockey but …read more Continue reading Air Football Looks Pro
Spain’s Fenwick Iribarren Architects has completed a novel design for the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup soccer championship in Qatar. Named the 974 Stadium, it’s designed to be relatively easy to disassemble and rebuild, and was constructed using almost… Continue reading Demountable stadium built using almost 1,000 shipping containers
While there’s no substitute for real in-person soccer coaching, a coach can’t be watching what every player is doing, all the time. That’s where the Jogo system is designed to come in, as it continuously tracks players’ performance from within their sh… Continue reading Soccer sensor system aims to put a coach in players’ cleats
The concept of a home ground advantage, where teams play in familiar surrounds in front of their own adoring fans, is broadly accepted as having a major bearing on match-day performance, but exactly how much benefit does it bring? To dig into this ques… Continue reading How stadiums emptied by COVID halved football’s home ground advantage
Populous is putting a fresh aeronautical spin on a soccer stadium in France with a €100 million (roughly US$120 million) renovation of Strasbourg’s Stade de la Meinau. The project will boost capacity, improve sustainability, and incorporate airplane fu… Continue reading Soccer stadium with fuselage facade scheduled for 2025 landing