Presented yesterday afternoon at the Faculty of Engineering at Ecotecna (UniSalento) AI4SOCCER, a software for football clubs developed through a strategic partnership with the American Lecce (recently relegated to Serie A at the end of the “last championship”). The Giallorossi club has been checking the progress of the joint work of the interdisciplinary center UniSalento, I-Store and Inmatica, a leading company in the field of technological innovations and a partner of the Lecce football club in the field of artificial intelligence, during the entire biennium. .
Thus, the city of Lecce for one day became the tricolor “Silicon Valley”. “Artificial Intelligence and IoT (Internet of Things) in Sports” was the name of the seminar, which was attended by, among others, Vice President of the Yellow-Red Association Corrado Liguori, sports coach of Mr. Baroni’s staff, Andrea Petruolo, President of Inmatica Filippo Penelaggi and Lega Pro Vice President Marcel Vulpis.
“The presence of Lega Pro at this meeting is not accidental. Today we are the Italian professional football league most attentive to the topics of technological innovation,” explained Vulpis during his speech at UniSalento. “With the launch of the new management, we have been constantly working to innovate and exploit every opportunity.
offered so far thanks to the digitization of the football ecosystem. As of Spring 2021, we have activated the Match Library for the first time, an area fully accessible to our 60 member clubs. We then partnered with the Italian startup Golee to digitize many of the club’s management functions and administration of the League itself. We have also created an area dedicated to match analysis by taking over two international giants in the sector. Today in Lecce we are witnessing the birth of a product (thanks to the foresight of President Penelaggi) that we hope will be released to the market as soon as possible by Lega Pro to improve sports programming along with the technical assets of our teams. More generally, we consider it important to invest in this particular area, which is only in Italy, if we are talking about artificial intelligence,
it develops savings of 300 million euros. This is “good news” but we need to accelerate as a system in order to repair the existing gap compared to other European leagues where these topics have been developed for at least 5 years We must be far-sighted, but also quick and tactful. There is no more room for waiting or income from the position. Those who invest in innovation and digitalization will lead the football of the future. This is the mission that I have set for myself as part of the work that I do for the League. The line has been drawn and we will work on it in the next two years.”
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