No matter how advances the science may be Rafael Benitez once poured in hours of his time watching the footage to prepare for matches. With an endless amount of footage on the attacking style, individual players playing style, or their defense strategy everything could be caught on camera to be studied by the coaches and players to curate their strategy.

In the past, coaches went one step further as well and even scanned the scouting reports and analysts' assessments of players and teams to formulate strategy. Everything that could give a good assessment of the opponents was assessed properly to figure out the weakness and who would be the point of interest. Thus leaving them with pages and pages of assessments from multiple matches and multiple competitions

Later on the field, players on the other hand would be given orders with regards to their position and any particular role they need to perform. As per the role, the players would be briefed on the strategy that the team would follow for example the left-back would be offered an abridged version of the observations on the attacking side from the right, the right-back on the other hand would be explained about the opponents playing from the left.

In this 15-minute discussion, they would formulate the entire strategy based on the clip, and in the end, Benitez would chalk out his plan which would be concise and to the point as players would pay attention for a few minutes only. Thus all that research would have to be broken down to just a few lines in the end.

Benitez was just an example other coaches followed the same strategy making slight changes in their strategy for some would choose a defense-centric approach and others attacking one. All this just gave way to 22 players who would in the end just give the ball away and try to get it back in the hopes to score and maintaining a lead. Over the years while the way Football is played has stayed the same but the strategy formation process has undergone a significant change.

The clubs that are successful today have entered the digital transformation era, with a more data-empowered approach from coaches and staff as well. First came the addition of data analysts but they were not given the full rights to take part in the strategy-making until the industry underwent a huge change and welcomed football data and realized the potential of the data to give the department an important seat at the table. Today with data, teams are not just winning matches but use that for recruitment as well, Draft phases and predicting injuries so that they can be avoided.

Further, the clubs then realized another important revelation that it was not just data but quality data effectively used to draw insights that would result in success. This strategy has offered a competitive edge to a few teams and helped a few clubs bag the title year after year. Later on, data resources exploded with wearable technology, even the NFL players were fitted with devices in their helmets to create a database and use that to prevent injuries in the long run and use that as a matrix for players’ performance as well.

Clubs soon after used data to increase revenue by using the power of data to lure in audience and enhance their experience in the stadium. Where once the ticket sales and attendance were dwindling as well data helped turn that around to lure in more spectators into the stadium by analyzing their behaviour over the course of time and then augmenting that experience with better tech and improved use of data in the technology-savvy world. The sports team hence underwent a complete change with the advent of data and coaches changed the way they approached the strategy-making process.

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