Now, of course, all those ideas have been adopted at clubs of far greater scale, of far richer history. The vast majority of teams across Europe are committing vast resources to building teams of analysts and statisticians and physicists. He would not have been alone in noticing that Maradona seemed to be a Technicolor player in a black-and-white world. “The first thing you have to remember is that success now does not mean success in the future,” said Berg, the head of analysis. “We try to be innovative, but it is fundamental that you have to stay curious.”

Source: New York Times December 30, 2020 06:00 UTC