Director of Analytics at US Soccer - Sam Gregory #54

Director of Analytics at US Soccer - Sam Gregory #54

Very pleased to welcome Sam Gregory onto the podcast to share his journey and some of his knowledge.

Sam entered the world of football analytics from an economics background and was also a key member of the analytics community back on Twitter around a decade ago.

Tom has spent time in various tech/data companies before working for York Utd (Canada) and Inter Miami as head of analytics. He joins me for this video 3-4 months into his new role as director of analytics for US Soccer. With the Copa America and the upcoming World Cup, now seems like a really interesting time for football (ok, soccer), in the US!

All relevant links, down below.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:50 - Sam joins, background, getting started
6:56 - Networking tips
12:16 - The importance of football knowledge
14:47 - Moving from commercial, to a club setting
21:41 - Joining Inter Miami
28:34 - Tracking data, how used, pressure
34:31 - Delivering insights to different personnel
42:35 - Building tools, and infrastructure (SQL, python etc.)
48:28 - Working at US Soccer, building out a department
56:15 - Looking ahead, the future of analytics, AI
59:30 - Advice for interviews, networking, new analytics conference
1:04:30 - Book recommendations
1:06:22 - Euro 2024 prediction, wrap up

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Books mentioned
Thinking fast & Slow - https://amzn.to/3RLsw9j
The Undoing Project - https://amzn.to/3xoG1F7
The Beckham Experiment - https://amzn.to/3zfpMuC
The Mixer - https://amzn.to/4cBBOwv
Zonal Marking - https://amzn.to/4cBBOwv

American Soccer Insights Summit - https://americansoccerinsights.com/
Follow Sam on Twitter - https://x.com/gregorydsam?lang=en

Sams talk at StatsBomb conference -    • StatsBomb Conference 2022: Sam Gregor...  


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