TOOL BASED ANALYTICAL SUPPORT FOR PRACTICAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER TRAINNING

摘要

Human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide accurate and objective information from athletes in high-performance environments. In this context analysis tools constitute an important instrument for professional coaches, as they provide information on player's behavior statistically compiled. Most of the tools presented for the soccer universe, offer non-real time information and, with the hardware devices being quite costly. In many cases these systems (specially camera based solutions) also present some technical issues mainly in what concerns occlusion and computational demands.rnThis research work presents a real time soccer analysis system based on a Wi-Fi location approach that can be used by a soccer coach in a training session or even a match. Using a Wi-Fi network, inexpensive tags and a positioning engine on top of it, this portable system provides a visualization tool for such data on a real time basis. The results are quite satisfactory, because this system was able to track the players during a training exercise and display this data on a real time bases and it was also able to provide information on players' movements and their interaction all over the exercise.