p2p news / p2pnet: For the first time in more than three decades, Australia has qualified for the World Cup football finals in Munich.

And a lot of the success maybe down to playlists, but of a different kind than the ones you’re thinking Rather, it’s 21st century digital technology in the shape of special software.

Socceroo “technical coach” Ron Smith scouts and sizes up the opposition with some pretty advanced kit, says the BBC.

“For this World Cup, Mr Smith’s job is to analyse the recent games of the teams that Australia will play.

“Each passage of play is logged according to who won possession and what they did with it. A play-list allows you to take each part of your opponent’s game, for example corners, and play them together.”

And he’s found that from looking at isolated parts of the game, “you can see patterns emerge very, very quickly, because it is happening more frequently than in watching a normal game over a 90 minute period”.

Meanwhile, just in case you’ve been living in a cave, although the Australians lost to Brazil 2-0 on Sunday, it’s still in there with a chance to enter to the next round of the World Cup when they play Croatia on Thursday.

The pic shows Brazil’s Cristiano Ronaldo dueling with Vince Grella.

But Ronaldo is dangerous in more ways than one. He’s Number 8 on a list of World Cup players being exploited on sites riddled with spyware, adware, “and other unwanted software” designed to, “exploit fans’ passions for financial gain”.

Also See:
BBC – Australia’s socceroos’ technical edge, June 17, 2006
riddled with spyware – World Cup threatens PC health, June 15, 2006

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