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Today marks a landmark moment for our company. We’re excited to announce that we have been acquired by @Sony – officially joining Sony's sports businesses.   Read more on the announcement here: statsports.com/article/sony-a…

Yet another impressive result for Como over the weekend. Their upward trajectory under Cesc Fàbregas continues, as they sit 4th in Serie A in just their second season in the top flight. Alongside that progress, there’s a clear focus on strengthening the connection between academy and first team environments. As explained below by Head of Development @Osian_Roberts, a key part of this is giving Primavera (U19) and U17 players regular exposure to first team training. This builds familiarity with the physical, tactical & mental demands, so that when opportunities come, players are prepared. Como use Sonra Cloud throughout the club to track and align player data across academy and first team environments, ensuring consistency in load, intensity and physical progression across the pathway. A clear, joined up approach to player development creating an exciting culture.

Down to 10 men, Kévin Denkey scores in the 94th minute to give @fccincinnati their first lead. This game 😱

@AshmanAFP Generally 40-50m sprint, but more likely 40m. Yeah 10m rolling effort into maximal sprint over 30m

@statsports Thank you for the clarification! So they do it 3 times, 70%, 80%, then all out once? How far do they go? It looks like acceleration isn't cued so it's like a 10m fly kind of?

A superb season for Everton so far. Here’s an example of the players hitting max speeds in training. Aside from improving sprint performance, research shows that players who hit >90% of their max speed 1-2 per week in training, suffer fewer muscular injuries than players who hit <85%. Fitness coaches on the sideline with access to our Sonra Live iPad can monitor the players’ max speed percentages in real time. Hit the link in our bio to find out how elite teams use our technology.

@AshmanAFP They’re generally directed to go at 70%, 80% and then all out maximally. If players don’t hit >90-95% they can sometimes be asked to go again until they do. Within reason, obviously.

@statsports Players are hitting 90% of their max speed there? Looks like they are running fast but not a true max effort sprint. But I could be wrong!

We’ve been talking about this issue for the guts of two years now. If you’ve games every 3-4 days, you can’t train effectively because players need time to recover sufficiently. If you can’t train effectively, it’s very difficult to load athletes properly to cope with the game demands. According to the research, the Premier League’s physical demands have increased exponentially in the last ten years. This is not new. But it is getting worse every year with added games, minutes, travel, etc. It’s a vicious cycle that puts immense pressure on clubs competing on multiple fronts.

Read the full article here👇 statsports.com/article/statsp…

One of the most common things we hear from coaches is⤵️ 
“I thought GPS was just for professional teams.”

The reality is that it’s being used far beyond elite sport, all over the world.

Rosario YFC are based in Belfast and compete at the equivalent of the 4th tier of Northern Irish football, just below national level.

Like most teams at any level, they deal with the same challenges.
- Managing player load.
- Injuries.
- Getting the most from each training session.
- Understanding what match demands are.

Since introducing our Sonra Lite system at the start of the season, Rosario have been able to mitigate injury risk, emphasise player accountability and support coaching decisions with objective data.

With Sonra Lite, coaches at clubs like Rosario can access the same core insights used at the top level, with flexible solutions that suit their environment.

@McDonnellDan @IndoSport Superb.

Went to Vestmannaeyjar to try and find out more about the homeplace of Heimir Hallgrimsson and ended up meeting some close friends and family who shone a light on how island life shaped the character of Ireland's manager Our @IndoSport doc is here youtube.com/watch?v=cqx8a_…

Coaches: highly recommend you check out this course 📊Athlete monitoring & GPS data help us plan smarter, manage workload, spot fatigue early, and keep players available. CPD in this space is essential 🔗 learn.statsports.com/courses/an-int… #performance #nogaspc

Have seen a few Tottenham fans commenting on how much fitter the squad looks, and how much more they’re running in games compared to the previous coaching setup. When a manager changes, physical output is generally tied directly to the game model. Tudor plays man-to-man, which naturally drives higher high-intensity running demands. He even mentioned early on that the squad might not have been at the required fitness level to execute his style consistently. One of the quickest ways to raise that baseline is simple conditioning work like box-to-box tempo runs. Not sure of the exact target here, but 72 m in ~10–12 seconds sits right in the high-intensity running zone, so the aim is likely building repeat high-speed capacity rather than pure sprint speed. Normally you wouldn’t see full-squad conditioning blocks like this during the season. With congested fixtures, most fitness work comes through football-based training. Long story short: tempo runs are a very effective way to raise physical capacity quickly, but for elite players, this type of work is usually done in pre-season, not mid-season. Drills like this are typically monitored live on the sideline, using absolute and relative speed thresholds to make sure each player hits the right intensity for their individual fitness level. With Sonra Live, coaches can track this in real time from the iPad. Find out more via the link in our bio.

@_onlywithpaul @Kachijn We can!

@Kachijn @statsports Can they deliver to Nigeria?

Tracking your performance with a @statsports GPS tracker helps you identify which areas of your game need improvement. P with @statsports

Performance data can often be used - incorrectly - as a stick to beat athletes with. This little anecdote from @drpetertierney is a great example of how data like ours can and should be used to build confidence in players. Good stuff.

Tactics and “elite IQ” as you put it definitely helps with positioning and decision-making, but neuromuscular fatigue is still neuromuscular fatigue. If sprint load, congestion and total minutes are higher, freshness is going to be affected and will hurt EPL teams. Not the only factor obviously, but definitely not over-played either.

I don’t dispute the data or that fatigue plays a part - but it’s over-played. Couple of points: - managers need to have more flexible game plans. Every game doesn’t need high sprints & high intensity. Eg - Slot’s first season was refreshing as he’d somehow found a balance of intensity with more in-game rest than Klopp managed. - Core players carry the biggest load yes and are happy to do so. Fatigue isn’t a factor for them. - players like Pedric, Modric and Vitinha will run rings round PL sides any day of the week as they’re simply elite minds - they dont need to be athletes cos their brains put them in the right place and make the right decisions. Still so much for English football to learn.

A lazy excuse is an ironically funny way to put it. There's nothing lazy about it. And it's not about teams doing +12km - total distance covered isn't a factor. The latest Premier League research (Allen and Taberner, 2025) is clear on what's been happening over the last 10 years: - Sprint distance ↑ ~40% over the last decade - High Speed distance ↑ ~23% - Match intensity per minute ↑ significantly - Top-six players exposed to more total minutes across the season - 'Top 6' squads also carry a higher % of congested minutes (3 games in 8 days) Coaches can rotate, but the core players still carry the biggest load, especially in top teams. Fatigue is obviously part of the equation.

The point is poorly made in terms of how they’re defining “competitiveness”… But the most up to date research is clear: the Premier League is the most physically demanding league in club football. They also play more games (league cup, FA cup, EPL). So in theory, English clubs playing in the Champions League will obviously be more fatigued than their European counterparts.

A remarkable 5-0 win for @SportingCP was bookended by another academy graduate, Rafael Nel - celebrating in the video below - who scored just 4 mins into his UCL debut. Sporting traditionally put huge emphasis on the academy to first team pathway. This is the club whose academy has produced Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Luis Nani, Joao Moutinho, and many more over the years. They do so with the help and guidance of our remotely accessible platform, Sonra Cloud. It eliminates the need for manual data upload, and gives the club’s admins the ability to view, edit, and share the data of every player within the club structure. This allows for the holistic physical development of each player through the age grades into the first team or national team, with zero blindspots in the load monitoring process. You can read more about this at the article in the next post.

Dream Night, @RafaelNel9 ✨ #SCPBOD #UCL

Huge congrats to our long term partners at Sporting. Incredible performance. Parabéns

Really nice counter-press drill design here from Bayer Leverkusen training. A high intensity rondo-like drill like this forces repeated accelerations, decelerations, and reactive movements - key drivers of our custom metric, High Metabolic Load Distance (HMLD). Monitoring a metric like this can ensure training matches necessary game intensity. Learn how elite teams monitor training - link in bio.