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Hello and welcome to Sport & Talk.

My name is Peter Schulz, I am the Sports Moderator for the topic of game intelligence in football.

In addition, you are welcome to look forward to an expert friend, I have invited him.

More on that later.

Before I get to the topic of game intelligence, I would like to take a look at the story.

What were the main points in football training?

If we look at it, 150 years ago the main point was in the technical field.

After 100 years, around 1960, a lot of emphasis was put on improving physical abilities.

To stay with Thomas Hesse, I am physically and physically top fit.

Then came the next area, namely the tactical, namely the individual tactics, group tactics, team tactics were improved.

What you can see here with our friends from Turkey, the red one is not the ball by the way, it is the referee.

So far so clear.

Around the turn of the millennium, Barcelona introduced the game intelligence, also called tiki-taka, by the Spanish national team.

Does football and game intelligence fit together at all?

Not an easy question.

To answer that, I have invited an expert.

Please welcome Oliver Kahn.

Nice to be here today.

Oliver, nice to have you here today.

We have to push a little bit on the tube, we only have 10 minutes.

Always this pressure.

We have prepared a picture here.

Could you describe what you say about it?

This is Xavi Hernandez, a player from Spain, he is in a terrible situation.

Of course, he only thinks of help or brings me out of here.

But as a player you have to think rationally, you have to think, okay, one against six, how can you solve this situation?

Right, and we need game intelligence for that.

Game intelligence means adapting to a new situation and being ready to solve it.

Now I would like to show you how many different, in total four phases, you can divide game intelligence.

The first phase is the phase of an intelligent player who knows how to make the right decisions and interpret the information correctly.

Exactly beyond that, this is the Lehmann, right, his friend.

I don't think that's funny.

We have to push a little bit on the tube.

On the subject of understanding.

An intelligent player shows understanding.

In a 90-minute game, a player has about 90 seconds of the ball.

That means a lot of actions are done with the game without the ball.

That means a player has to know how to move the game without the ball, how to implement the tactical measures of the coach.

A real player makes the right decision at the right time.

And that's the point we usually see, game intelligence must not only be reduced to technical execution.

Playing football is very complex.

Oliver, could you briefly explain to us what we know now and how you interpret the situation?

I can. Xavi Hernandez has a peripheral eye.

He sees this very well.

He knows exactly where the players are and has an understanding of the situation.

He understands the right decision at the right time.

And of course he has a perfect technical execution.

And that, my very dear ladies and gentlemen, is game intelligence.

Thank you, Oliver.