Will the length of Dimitri Payet's “man bun” be one of the data made public in OM's “Data Lab”? - C. Mahoudeau / AFP

  • OM, who face Bayern Munich in a friendly this Friday at 4 p.m., have just recruited Spaniard Pablo Longoria.
  • The sports director will be able to rely on the director11 software to compare players and promote them to buying clubs.
  • “There is all the information from the medical service, nutrition, the player's psychological state,” explains Sergio Casalins, the boss of director11, at 20 Minutes .

André Villas-Boas is not happy to go to Munich this Friday. For the OM coach, the friendly * this afternoon (4 p.m.) is “a purely commercial match” against opposition “of the highest possible level. “His OM is not (yet?) Equipped to fight Bayern, after two victories against amateur clubs and a loss against FC DAC, which plays in the first division in Slovakia. Thus, midfielder Kevin Strootman said “not yet ready to play 90 minutes. "

📆 The schedule for the preparation of OM is out

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When he was a young man, André Villas-Boas spent his nights on  Championship Manager ( The Coach in VF), the ancestor of Football Manager . The OM Data Lab, launched this Thursday, will undoubtedly bring back good memories. This tool promises to be sprawling. “As soon as a teaching, a study, a discovery can be made public, it can be shared with everyone, in the form of a press release, a thesis, MOOC training, conferences, etc. », Indicates Frédéric Cozic.

"Everything will be anonymized"

Will the Portuguese coach of OM be happy to see Marseille enter the era of transparency? Let's not get carried away. “Everything that is done respects the RGPD, specifies Samir Dilmi, the ambassador of this new tool. Everything will be anonymized. It is important to respect everyone's privacy. "

During the behind closed doors training of OM, the hill has eyes ... "We do not spy, we observe!" https://t.co/Nux2xWc7Ah via @ 20minutes

- Jean Saint-Marc (@JeanSaintMarc) April 26, 2018

The general public will not know how many kilometers Dimitri Payet has run this or that week in training. On the other hand, the sporting director Pablo Longoria will have tangible elements on which to base himself to offer a contract to this or that young person of the training center - or simply to raise him of a category.

"Thanks to our director11 software, all scout reports are available for all coaches of OM teams", decrypts Sergio Casalins for 20 minutes , the CEO of the Spanish company which developed this software, used by the AS Monaco in 2016. It was Albert Valentin, the right arm of the former sports director Andoni Zubizarreta, who had this tool installed in Marseille. Sergio Casalins continues:

There is all the information of the medical service, nutrition, the psychological state of the player. There is also the place of residence. It is important to know how a player trains, what happens outside the sports field, to analyze his strengths and points to work on. "

The economist Lionel Maltese, lecturer at Aix-Marseille University, agrees: “To miss a recruitment or the signing of the contract of a young person from the center is economically damaging. Even on resale, they will be able to compare, say “Valentin Rongier is capable of doing this, this and that”. "

The “locomotive” of Ligue 1?

The researcher pauses and takes his OM supporter cap: “I especially hope he won't leave. The midfielder trained in Nantes, recruited last year, is not at the top of the list of possible sales. But it is certain that Marseille must also learn to give up its good elements, after spending three years buying - not always at the best price.

But faced with audience and attendance statistics in the stadiums, one of the new thinking heads of OM is delighted: “The data we have analyzed show that the expression“ locomotive of Ligue 1 ”is justified! "

* Hey, if we followed this Bayern-OM together live on 20 Minutes , how good?

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