Analysis

February 26, 2019

Football boots keeping score

Israeli-British startup PlayerMaker has launched its performance-enhancing football tech this season — and has big plans for conquering Europe.


Carly Minsky

7 min read

The UK’s youth Millwall football team has a fancy new piece of kit to play with: boots fitted with sensors which tell them how hard they’re running, how fast they’re running and most importantly, how many touches they make.

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Millwall FC's youth coach, Daniel Mlinar: courtesy of PlayerMaker
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Dashboard of Millwall FC's game analytics (anonymised), courtesy of PlayerMaker
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Dashboard showing a team's passing network during a match: courtesy of PlayerMaker
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