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‘MASTERFUL’ Raphael Honigstein The story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor! Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are the most successful. Winners of twenty-four domestic titles since the late 1960s, they have stood at the pinnacle of European football for almost their entire existence. Through interviews with the key protagonists, Uli Hesse tells the story of this unique club. From early run-ins with the Nazis to being dubbed FC Hollywood for their egocentric stars in the 1990s up to the sensational undercover appointment of the best coach in the world, Pep Guardiola, Hesse opens the doors on Bavaria’s superpower and takes you inside Bayern Munich.
This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2014, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully selected and reviewed from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data models and query languages; data warehousing; query and data-flow optimization; information extraction and integration; spatial, temporal and streaming data; data mining and knowledge discovery; data organization and physical issues; and data and business processes.
Downloaded over ten million times a year the Football Ramble podcast has established itself as the essential, independent voice of football punditry. The weekly podcast has resonated with supporters around the world and their sold-out live shows have been a massive hit. This book is a collaboration from all four presenters and will tackle the real issues from fans you won’t see or hear on Sky Sports, or anywhere else for that matter. From the weird and wonderful, from the Alan Pardew to the Kevin Keegan, the Ramble has it covered. Putting all aspects of the game under the microscope, this book is a timely reminder of why we just can’t take our minds off football.
How does chance enter our world? And why is so much not predictable? In an understandable, exciting and amusing narrative, the author takes us into the world of chemistry, quantum physics and biology. Touching on astronomy and philosophy, we witness a rewarding journey of discovery. In the process, he develops a completely new view of chance based on the laws of nature. Here, the omnipresent non-equilibrium plays an extremely decisive role, because it generates the complex structures in our world. Finally, on this basis, he presents an equally simple and captivating hypothesis on the nature of time. This non-fiction book provides a deep insight into the fascination of research, the agonizing search for fundamental understanding, and the struggle for scientific knowledge.
This sci-fi book is all about dreaming big. People says that don't dream big, I say you to dream big! 90% people fail in their life not because they dreamed so high, They got failed because they dreamed very much low.This book is for dream followers and for the people who wants to do an extraordinary things in their life. This book about a boy who was never a good student in his chidhood days. He was having no dreams but one day after listning to a man he got his dream but a new problem arises here. Society is opposing him to make his dream a truth. Lets see who will win he or society!
From star players to rioting fans, The People's Game examines how football shaped the history of communist East Germany.
Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers, and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It offers an insight into the use of positional data, exploring how they can be collected, modeled, analyzed, and interpreted. Introducing cutting-edge methods, the book challenges long-held assumptions and encourages a new way of thinking about football analysis. The book seeks to define the role of positional data in football match analysis by exploring topics such as the following: What is positional data analysis, and how did it emerge from conventional match analysis? How can positional data be collected, and which technologies can be used? What ...
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2020, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2020, in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers present a variety of topics within the area of sports analytics, including tactical analysis, outcome predictions, data acquisition, performance optimization, and player evaluation.