Rich Buchanan was joined on the Zone7 Performance Podcast by Anton McElhone, former Head of Sports Science at Celtic FC, to discuss changes throughout his career, switching between football management and performance roles, and differences working under various managers and in various leagues
In this article, Zone7’s Performance Director, Rich Buchanan explores how the company tackles clients’ missing workload data and the methods that Zone7 employs to ensure longitudinal data integrity.
Experienced Sports Science Consultant, Jo Clubb provides comment on Zone7’s recent white paper on ‘The Importance of Workload, Strength, Recovery and Environmental Context Data in an Injury Risk Forecasting Model’.
Dr Raffaele Landolfi, medical director at SSC Napoli, gives his first hand perspective working with Zone7 and applying AI within his Scudetto-winning environment at the Isokinetics Conference 2023
While Sevilla’s model of building out data informed technology solutions has had success to-date, the club, as well as any other individual club, is likely to run into a few critical issues when it comes to building out an AI-driven solution to address injury risk forecasting and workload management.
To discuss Zone7’s newly introduced Audit Services tier, and why it is in particularly high-demand as the season-end approaches, we sat down with Performance Director Rich Buchanan.
Zone7 conducted an audit report to assess injuries sustained by players at an anonymous team competing in LaLiga 2 during the 2021/22 season.
Clubs are investing huge resources in data analysis and AI for players they don’t yet own. However, there is clear evidence for also expanding this investment into systems that enable more proficient data and AI processes for the players they already have within their squad.
Sheffield United Academy’s Head of Elite Performance has taken a closer look at our research comparing the injury incidence for non-international players in the 7-days pre-international break and post-international breaks in the 20/21 and 21/22 seasons and how mid-season international tournaments such as Afcon 2022, Concacaf Gold Cup 2021, and Copa America 2021, have affected players’ injury risk upon return to their parent clubs.
Zone7 has appointed applied exercise physiologist, Dr Barry Drust PhD, to its Advisory Board to support the company’s continued expansion across professional sports.
Zone7 conducted a retrospective analysis of injuries sustained by club competing in this season’s UEFA Champions League
Italian media publication, Il Mattino, recently covered Napoli’s Medical Director Professor Raffaele Landolfi speech at SHRO’s conference, including discussion around his adoption of Zone7
