Conjoint conference between the Barça Innovation Hub and the MIT

The FC Barcelona is using Turns it 2017 for explaining, in different forums of United States, the main strategic projects of the Club, like the Barça Innovation Hub (BiHub), with which is creating the centre of knowledge and innovation number 1 of the world the industry of the sport.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the prestigious institution and North American university devoted to the investigation already the investigation, has been the ideal stage to celebrate the first conference on the future of the industry of the sport in the frame of the BiHub.

The event has had the presence of the director Jordi Moix, the director of Strategic Planning and Innovation of the Club, Javier Nephew, and Mauricio López-Felip, member of the Area of Collective Sports. By part of the MIT has participated in the act the executive vice-president, Israel Ruiz. The meeting has taken place in the headquarters of the MIT, with an assistance of more than one hundred members of the surroundings of the university between professors, students, employers and sportive institutions.

An interesting debate

By part of the Club, has participated in the conference Mauricio López-Felip, member of the Area of Collective Sports, that has exposed the particular vision that has the Club in the field of the analytical sportive. "Traditionally, the culture of the analytical sportive centred in the performance of the players and based in the played successful or frustrated", explained.

"However, the Area of Sports of Team of the FC Barcelona is one of the few institutions that investigate a new style of analytical, turning to the panoramic vision of the team like unit and his performance in a context. The dynamics, the nature of the sports in team, like the football, are impossible to understand with the traditional technicians of analytical sportive. Therefore, the answer is not to continue looking the played out of the context, but analyse the dynamics according to the movement coordinated and the sitemas complex that integrate a party", concluded.