With Aplomb

With Aplomb

By eternoSportsSoccer
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With Aplomb episodes

  • The Science of Winning: An Interview with Professor Konstantinos Pelechrinis

    Johan Cruyff used to insist that players only have the ball for ~ 3 minutes per game.


    So what makes a player great is what they do the other 87 minutes without the ball, walking/jogging/sprinting/zigzagging into space.

    While data analytics is not new to sports, it has largely been absent from the world’s most popular sport until the past 5-10 years.

    In this episode, we had the privilege of chatting with Kostas Pelechrinis, an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information where he leads the Network Data Science Lab.

    Kostas along with co-author Wayne Winston, Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, wrote a fascinating paper to determine which positions contribute more to winning AND are undervalued by the market.

    In this effort, they combed through ~ 20,000 games from 11 European leagues over a period of 8 seasons, as well as, player ratings from @easportsfifa!

    Tune in as we get into the history of data analytics in soccer dating back to late 70’s, the current state of data analytics and how/if technology can be used to have more and better data!


    🗣You can read the paper in full, here (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.07536.pdf)


    🗣🗣 Check out our 1st drop 👉🏽 D10S (https://eterno.boutique/collections/boutique)

    24 min
  • A Visit: Forward Madison FC (1 of 2)

    In episode 11 of With Aplomb, we’re thrilled to share the story of Forward Madison FC.

    In their inaugural season in USL League One, Madison WI’s first pro soccer team is bringing joy to a community that from what we saw from our visit is hungry and pumped for the world’s ultimate sport to have come to their city.


    The stories you’ll hear in the 1st of our 2 part series with the team will shine a light on the ins and outs of what it takes to build a community-oriented pro soccer team in the United States.

    Boasting the highest home game attendance as well as the most Instagram followers in the league, we were blown away by the quality of their branding, merchandising and grassroots fan engagement efforts.

    When we asked about the vision for the club, this is what we were told:

    “To become a staple of the community...We just want this to be Madison’s soccer team, forever.” 🖖🏽

    🗣Since you're probably a Forward Madison fan now, you'll wanna get some of their incredible merch, here!

    28 min
  • What The Actual Fuck Is A HANDBALL⁉️

    • Intro: Black Rob - Whoa! (Instrumental)

    • Forward Madison FC #FULLMINGO

    • The Jersey

    • Laws of the Game: Handball (source: IFAB)

    • 🙏🏽✌🏽

    • Outro: Kaze - Spirit of '94 (Instrumental, produced by the inimitable 9th Wonder)

    🗣D10S --> Our 1st drop --> Ethically sourced and made.

    15 min
  • Equality For All: Why Is Baku A Thing?

    • Intro: Black Rob - Whoa! (Instrumental)

    • This Episode's Jersey

    • Discrimination x Europa League Final

    • 🙏🏽✌🏽

    • Outro: Kaze - Spirit of '94/Instrumental (produced by the inimitable 9th Wonder)

    🗣D10S --> Our 1st drop --> Ethically sourced and made.

    24 min
  • A Walk With Legends: Ajax 1994/95
    • Intro: Black Rob - Whoa! (Instrumental)
    • This Episode's Jersey
    • Ajax: Past & Present
    • 🙏🏽✌🏽
    • Outro: Kaze - Spirit of '94/Instrumental (produced by the inimitable 9th Wonder)
    19 min
  • Racism In ⚽️

    • Intro: Black Rob - Whoa! (Instrumental) 

    • Racism in Italy, Moise Kean and Juventus' failure to take a stand against hate

    • 🗣🙏🏽✌🏽 

    • Outro: Kaze - Spirit of '94/Instrumental (produced by the inimitable 9th Wonder)

    8 min
  • League of Billions x Juventus

    • Intro: Black Rob - Whoa! (Instrumental) • Welcome • This Week's Jersey • In This Episode... • Women's Champions League Update • African Cup of Nations Update • Tim Cahill Retiring • Ole 🤝🔴😈 • Celebrating Moise Kean • Q&A • Juventus Femminile • League of Billions • 🗣🙏🏽✌🏽 • Outro: Kaze - Spirit of '94/Instrumental (produced by the inimitable 9th Wonder)

    51 min

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The only denominator common to all people, the only universal Esperanto...a world language, whose grammar is unchanging from the North Pole to the Equator — Jean Eskenazi on ⚽️ (1954).