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"This is the first critical, in-depth academic study of FC Barcelona, one of the world's great football clubs, exploring the historical, political, cultural and commercial dimensions of this global sporting institution. The book examines why and how the club grew from its genesis as a small sporting organisation in the developing urban landscape of Barcelona in 1899 to become a contemporary giant that has both shaped and transcended football. It considers how globalisation, cultural identity and political ideology can help us to understand the development of Barça, but also how the growth of the phenomenon of FC Barcelona helps us to better understand those forces shaping contemporary global societies. It brings together leading scholars from around the world to examine key themes such as governance, regional and national politics, storytelling, fandom, digital media, branding, commercialisation, and sport diplomacy, exploring topics such as the European Super League fiasco and the rise of Lionel Messi as a global icon. It also includes a series of chapters looking at the importance of FC Barcelona around the world, including Latin America, the United States, Africa and East Asia. This illuminating, multi-disciplinary study of FC Barcelona is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, Catalonian politics and culture, or the history, politics, culture and business of sport"--

Soccer --- Sports and globalization --- Economic aspects --- Futbol Club Barcelona --- History.

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Artificial intelligence --- Robotics --- Robòtica --- Futbol --- Simulació per ordinador --- Intel·ligència artificial --- Intel·ligència artificial.

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Soccer --- Muscle strength. --- Training. --- Strength of muscles --- Exercise --- Muscles --- Physical fitness --- Physical education and training --- Futbol --- Entrenament (Esport) --- Musculació

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This book explores the application of data mining and machine learning techniques in studying the activity pattern, decision-making skills, misconducts, and actions resulting in the intervention of VAR in European soccer leagues referees. The game of soccer at the elite level is characterised by intense competitions, a high level of intensity, technical, and tactical skills coupled with a long duration of play. Referees are required to officiate the game and deliver correct and indisputable decisions throughout the duration of play. The increase in the spatial and temporal task demands of the game necessitates that the referees must respond and cope with the physiological and psychological loads inherent in the game. The referees are also required to deliver an accurate decision and uphold the rules and regulations of the game during a match. These demands and attributes make the work of referees highly complex. The increasing pace and complexity of the game resulted in the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) to assist and improve the decision-making of on-field referees. Despite the integration of VAR into the current refereeing system, the performances of the referees are yet to be error-free. Machine learning coupled with data mining techniques has shown to be vital in providing insights from a large dataset which could be used to draw important inferences that can aid decision-making for diagnostics purposes and overall performance improvement. A total of 6232 matches from 5 consecutive seasons officiated across the English Premier League, Spanish LaLiga, Italian Serie A as well as the German Bundesliga was studied. It is envisioned that the findings in this book could be useful in recognising the activity pattern of top-class referees, that is non-trivial for the stakeholders in devising strategies to further enhance the performances of referees as well as empower talent identification experts with pertinent information for mapping out future high-performance referees.

Programming --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- neuronale netwerken --- fuzzy logic --- cybernetica --- datamining --- sport --- programmeren (informatica) --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- data acquisition --- AI (artificiële intelligentie) --- Data mining. --- Machine learning. --- Soccer --- Futbol --- Entrenament (Esport) --- Competicions esportives --- Aprenentatge automàtic --- Mineria de dades --- Tournaments.