No.47 May 2006 |
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Professional football generates increasing mobility worldwide. The
explosion of the number of players migrating through football makes
an intuitive approach to the phenomenon extremely difficult.
From a territorial perspective, the goal of the observatory is to measure
different correlations between footballers’ flows and the characteristics
of the clubs, cities, regions and countries that are the theatre of
this circulation.
From a sport perspective, the project aims to collect the available
information on footballers’ transfers in order to allow an overall
vision of the phenomenon and to furnish valuable data to football directing
instances, both at the national and international level. Approach and results
The approach proposed aims to create an Observatory based on a longitudinal
data bank containing different types of information on players, clubs,
town, regions and countries.
Correlations between these data will be tested automatically using a
tool called conceptual model of data (MCD) associating statistics and
cartographic software.
The MCD permits an analysis of selected information by means of several
reading levels:
Area of study
Previously, it had seemed judicious to proceed step by step by integrating
data from specialized press on players taking part in the highest national
competition level in the five most important European championships
(England, Italy, Spain, Germany, France), as well as on the clubs and
cities of these countries.
Results in the long term
In the longer term, the project could be further developed through
the integration of data on European countries and continents where football
is also organized in a professional way such as Asia and Latin America.
From the outset, the MCD will be programmed in order to allow for these
possible future developments.
Contact:
Raffaele Poli International Center for Sport Studies (CIES) C/o Hotel DuPeyrou Avenue DuPeyrou 1 2000 Neuchatel Switzerland raffaele.poli@unine.ch ![]() http://www.icsspe.org/portal/index.php?w=1&z=5 |