Dutch tech firm transforms real-life football through video game concept
Summary
A Dutch company that was created when gamers thought the Football Manager computer game concept could work in real life helped to support the Belgian national team at the last World Cup in 2018. During the 2018 World Cup, Dutch tech firm SciSports, which specialises in the analysis of football data, helped the Belgian team by providing analyses of its opponents. After an internship at Dutch football club FC Twente, where he analysed players and matches based on various datasets, Brouwer completed his studies in industrial engineering. Then, with two fellow students, he built a platform with the vision that data would become indispensable in analysing players and enriching the recruitment strategy. That focus offers a lot of efficiency.” Scouts, clubs and national teams can search the database using all kinds of variables, said Brouwer.