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October 27, 2008

The Time For Instant Replay Has Come.

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Italian referees could use some damage control PR today, after managing to royally fuck up two games. In Palermo-Fiorentina, Alberto Gilardino - who is quite hot at the moment so we can maybe forgive their assumptions he'd magically huffed and puffed the ball into the net - scored with what appeared to be his hand. Click to continue reading...
The Offside @ 08:00 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Alberto Gilardino, Euro 2008, European Championships, Fiorentina, Italy, Palermo, Roma, Serie A, Technology, Udinese, World Football, instant replay

October 24, 2008

Beau Dure from USA Today visits the Chicago Red Stars office

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Turns out that one of the few, most notable, soccer writers in the country was in Chicago this weekend for a couple big events.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Beau Dure from USA Today visits the Chicago Red Stars office", url: "http://www.amandavandervort.com/blog/2008/10/beau-dure-from-usa-today-visits-the-chicago-red-stars-office/" }); Click to continue reading...
Soccer Science @ 02:17 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Chicago Red Stars, Red Stars;, Soccer, Social Media, Technology, beau dure, chicago, usa today, women's soccer

October 12, 2008

Just Say No To Video Technology?

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The fiasco that passed off as a "goal" at Vicarage Road when Reading visited Watford once again raised the question of video technology. Hell! – I am still recovering from the second "goal" in the 1984 FA cup final! Steve Sherwood clearly had the ball in both hands before that cheating Andy Gray headed it [. Click to continue reading...
SoccerLens @ 07:32 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Andy Gray, Europe, Everton FC, Help Football, Nigel Bannister, Reading, Reditch, Solihull, Steve Sherwood, Technology, Video, Watford, stuart attwell

August 26, 2008

Soccer: the final bastion that technology hasn't touched

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It was first reported two months ago that Major League Baseball was moving to allow instant replay for in-game use - but for limited purpose of determing home runs. It is said that this will be the only circumstance in which the technology, which espn.com reported today, will be used. On Thursday, months of speculation will cease when the use of intsant replay will be made flesh. Click to continue reading...
Welcome to the House of Soccer @ 08:02 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Baseball, ESPN, Soccer, Technology, instant replay, life, metaphors

August 22, 2008

News Video From The ‘Golden Globe’ Pub Olympic Viewing Party

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USA soccer fans gathered at the Globe Pub in Chicago to watch the Olympic team defeat Brazil for the Gold Medal! The breakfast was sponsored by the Chicago Red Stars.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "News Video From The 'Golden Globe' Pub Olympic Viewing Party", url: "http://www.amandavandervort.com/blog/2008/08/news-video-from-the-golden-globe-pub-olympic-viewing-party/" }); Click to continue reading...
Soccer Science @ 10:56 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Brazil, Chicago Red Stars, Olympic Team, Olympics, Soccer, Technology, USA soccer, United States, globe, gold medal, pub, soccer fans

August 13, 2008

Only Time Will Tell on Twitter

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Last week, we went mobile, now we have decided to start a Twitter site that will allow us to send up dates to the site from a Blackberry or mobile phone. All of the updates will appear on the right hand side of the site, under the Twitter headline. We will be able to update from different tailgating events and even while watching games, so look out world here we come. Click to continue reading...
Only Time Will Tell @ 01:40 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , College basketball, Soccer, Tailgating, Technology, college football, games, mobile phone

June 29, 2008

How Accurate Is Ball Flight Technology?

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The use of technology in soccer for things like goal line calls, offside, and more has always been experimental, and even then has been controversial. While arguing over a referee's call is often a soccer fan's favorite pastime, few fans or officials support its use in the beautiful game. However, more often than not the debate is about technology's impact on the flow of the game, not accuracy. Click to continue reading...
On The Pitch @ 07:46 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Recreational, Soccer, Technology, Tennis, Tough Call, United States, accuracy, ball-technology, beautiful game, goal-technology, hawk-eye, offside, referee, replay, soccer fan

May 6, 2008

Robot-Goalkeeper Technology: Germany’s Latest Invention to Stop Luca Toni… Meet Goalias

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There could be tough times ahead for Luca Toni. The Bayern Munich striker, just recently crowned Bundesliga champion and currently leading the scoring charts with 21 goals, may soon be confronted with an unsurpassable obstacle... of the robotic kind. Its name is Goalias (or GoalIAS if you prefer), and it's the first robot-goalkepeer capable of [. Click to continue reading...
mCalcio @ 10:20 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , German Bundesliga, GoalIAS, Mario Gómez, Miscellaneous, Technology

How New Media Can Help The National Soccer Coaches Association of America

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I am just off a conference call with the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America Diversity Committee. The purpose of this blog post is to suggest using the Internet for (1) PRIVATE commitee websites, and (2) PUBLIC marketing campaigns. Click to continue reading...
Soccer Science @ 01:43 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , NSCAA, Technology, diversity, soccer coach

May 5, 2008

Amanda Vandervort’s Top 8 SEO Sites

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I visit these seven SEO websites more than any others so I wanted to share them. Includes SEOBook, SEOmoz, TropicalSEO, and more. Click to continue reading...
Soccer Science @ 12:16 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , SEO, Social Media, Technology, analytics, google, seobook, seomoz, whiteboard friday, whois

April 18, 2008

Interview With Peter Wilt: WPS Chicago’s CEO Takes One Step Backward For Two Giant Leaps Forward

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Photo courtesy of Peter's blog. Peter Wilt was the first President and General Manager of the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer, and has gained a noteworthy reputation for being a fan-friendly soccer businessman. He's known for answering questions from fans through the BigSoccer Internet message boards, and he now maintains his own blog [. Click to continue reading...
Soccer Science @ 07:43 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Chicago Fire, Interviews, MLS, Major League Soccer, Men's Soccer, Peter Wilt, Social Media, Technology, WPS, women's soccer

February 18, 2008

The Future of Football is Holographic

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From 3-D football to robotic linesmen, the Orange Future of Football Report tell us what football fans have to look forward to in the coming years. Yet oddly, it's all rather back to the future. Tom Dunmore explains. Click to continue reading...
Pitch Invasion @ 12:48 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Culture, Lead Story, Technology, globalisation

February 14, 2008

Top ten ways football could change by 2020

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While we're still debating over whether to use technology as simple as goal line cameras, there could be far more revolutionary changes to the game in the next ten or twenty years according to The Orange Future of Football Report. Click to continue reading...
Who Ate All the Pies @ 08:17 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Europe, Football, Technology, game, img, jpg, line, orange, simple, virtual, width

February 9, 2008

Adidas predator powerswerve

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I had the chance to try out a pair of the new Adidas predator powerswerve boots today. I haven't used a pair since the predator pulse boots from a couple of years ago that I own but I was pleasantly surprised with the powerswerves. They're part of the new Adidas range along with the adiPURE [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 10:49 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Adidas, F50, Gerard, Kaka, Messi, Powerswerve, Predator, Shoes, Technology, Video, Zidane, adipure

January 25, 2008

Nike Pro Compression

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So a couple of weeks ago I finally took the plunge and bought a Nike Pro sleeveless crew with zoned compression areas. I'd been wanting to get one for a while but the prohibitive price usually dispelled my desire pretty quickly. My local sports store had a sale on and I found one for half-price, [... Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 10:22 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Compression, Dri-Fit, Nike Pro, Technology

January 20, 2008

Ten years of mercurial vapors

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Continuing on with my posts of late, I found an interesting video about the research that went into the nike mercurial vapor III. A bit late with the IV coming out very soon but I was good to watch and this is still my favourite boot (who knows until I try the IVs out). Basically [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 09:53 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Nike Mercurial Vapor, Players, Ronaldo, Shoes, Technology, Video, YouTube, henry

January 16, 2008

Nike Mercurial SL (Vapor IV)

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Well the Nike Mercurial Vapor IV's are out soon and I came across this cool post on ballhype about a special variety of the new mercurials. I have the video at the end of the post if you want to see for yourself. Basically they get Asafa Powell, some terribly fast sprinter (so I'm told), [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 09:51 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Euro 2008, Nike Mercurial Vapor, Players, Ronaldo, Shoes, Technology, Video, drogba

December 12, 2007

Adidas Predator Pulse

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To go with the release of the new Predators, the Adidas Predator Swerve as discussed on footy boots and to follow up my post about the Nike Mercurial Vapors, I thought I'd post about a pair of Predators that I've owned (well, in fact still use on occasion), the Predator Pulse. These were released in 2004 [. Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 07:39 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Adidas, K-leather., Powerswerve, Predator, Pulse, Shoes, Technology

November 27, 2007

Liverpool Pies Lookalikes: Can you guess who?

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I bet you one billion dollars* of cold, hard meat that you can't work out who Stadler and Waldorf from 'The Muppets' (how ironic) are impersonating in this picture... There's an extra prize if you can spot the little tyke that's hiding in the the picture - much like he seems to have been hiding in the past few days. Click to continue reading...
Liverpool Pies @ 08:00 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Champions League, Commentary, Competitions, Events, Fans, News, Past greats, Players, Stats, Technology, Videos, fun

October 28, 2007

Nike Mercurial Vapors

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Following on from a couple of posts I made about the technology involved in soccer (first with soccer balls then monitoring/statistical equipment), I thought I'd look into the latest innovations in soccer boots/cleats. What better shoe to start with then the Nike Mercurial Vapors. Not that I'm a Nike man or anything but I've [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 01:57 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Mercurial, NIKE, Shoes, Synthetic, Technology, Teijin, Vapor

October 10, 2007

Soccer technology 2

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Continuing on from my earlier post about soccer ball technology I wanted to explore some other high-tech advances that are going on behind the scenes of the modern game. The areas of match analysis, game statistics and player performance monitoring may have a limited impact on most followers of the world game but they are [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 11:29 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Technology

Soccer technology 2

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Continuing on from my earlier post about soccer ball technology I wanted to explore some other high-tech advances that are going on behind the scenes of the modern game. The areas of match analysis, game statistics and player performance monitoring may have a limited impact on most followers of the world game but they are [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 11:29 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Technology

Soccer technology 2

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Continuing on from my earlier post about soccer ball technology I wanted to explore some other high-tech advances that are going on behind the scenes of the modern game. The areas of match analysis, game statistics and player performance monitoring may have a limited impact on most followers of the world game but they are [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 11:29 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Technology

September 30, 2007

Soccer technology

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Ever wondered about the amount of technology that goes into soccer? I've always known that many products have a lot of technology and research involved, from the high quality leathers and synthetics on modern shoes to the latest innovations in ball design and testing. But I decided to have a good look into these technologies starting with soccer balls. Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 01:51 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Ball, Technology

Soccer technology

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Ever wondered about the amount of technology that goes into soccer? I've always known that many products have a lot of technology and research involved, from the high quality leathers and synthetics on modern shoes to the latest innovations in ball design and testing. But I decided to have a good look into these technologies starting with soccer balls. Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 01:51 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Ball, Technology

Soccer technology

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Ever wondered about the amount of technology that goes into soccer? I've always known that many products have a lot of technology and research involved, from the high quality leathers and synthetics on modern shoes to the latest innovations in ball design and testing. But I decided to have a good look into these technologies [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 01:51 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Ball, Technology

Soccer technology

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Ever wondered about the amount of technology that goes into soccer? I've always known that many products have a lot of technology and research involved, from the high quality leathers and synthetics on modern shoes to the latest innovations in ball design and testing. But I decided to have a good look into these technologies [...] Click to continue reading...
18 yards @ 01:51 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Ball, Fevernova, Roteiro, TeamGeist, Technology