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US Soccer Federation to Use AI to Scout Millions of Youth Players Worldwide

By

Maggie Harrison Dupré

2h ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

The United States Soccer Federation is adopting AI-powered scouting to analyze video footage of tens of millions of youth soccer players worldwide to identify and recruit new talent. US Soccer COO Dan Helfrich announced this initiative at a Fortune event, describing it as a "paradigm shift" that will allow the organization to scout every single player rather than relying on traditional methods. The AI system can process vast amounts of game footage to identify promising athletes who might otherwise go unnoticed by conventional scouting networks.

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AI-assisted scouting represents a 'paradigm shift' that will allow US soccer to 'scout every single player'
This technology will help us identify talent that would otherwise be missed by traditional scouting methods
We're moving from a system where scouts could only watch a fraction of games to one where AI can analyze millions of hours of footage
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US Soccer is hoping to recruit players from across the world by using AI to scan video footage of tens of millions of athletes.

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