This episode was recorded at the recent Sportradar Connect: Soccer Edition event at the London Stadium in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.  

The podcast divides is in two parts. 

First is an onstage conversation on the evolution of football data analytics and AI featuring Jamie Carragher, Erik Durm and Nicolo D’Ercole. 

Jamie Carragher played 737 times for Liverpool and 38 times for England, in career that included the famous 2005 UEFA Champions League victory. Today he is one of the most popular and innovative analysts working in sports television, part of Sky Sports award winning Premier League production and CBS’s groundbreaking Golazzo show in the US.

Erik Durm was a star of the Bundesliga, playing for Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt and was a member of Germany’s 2014 FIFA World Cup winning team.

Nicolo D’Ercole is Executive Vice President of AI & technology at Sportradar. 

The second part of this episode is a roundtable conversation we convened at the end of the day featuring Nicolo along with Darren Small (SVP Managed Trading Services) and Nikolaus Beier (SVP Marketing Services) from Sportradar to discuss the key marketing and technology trends that dominate the sports, betting and entertainment industries. 

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