Episode 56: Tofa Fakunle, Cavalry FC

Episode 56: Tofa Fakunle, Cavalry FC

Tofa Fakunle is currently the assistant General Manager at Canadian Premier League cub, Cavalry FC. Before this current role, he was the football operations manager at the same club, and then before that, a professional player. Based in Calgary, Cavalry FC are one of 8 teams that compete in CPL, which is a relatively new league, having only started in 2019. The league is the only professional league in Canada, which offers a lot of potential to grow, especially with the World Cup arriving in 2026. In this conversation we speak about how Tofa has to look after and manage the clubs’ budgets, the rules set by the leagues around squad building, and how Tofa and his team source players, for free, from all over the World. We touch on data, the MLS, and a bit more on the overall football landscape within Canada. Timestamps 0:00 – Introduction 1:28 - Tofa joins and gives some background 3:47 – Transitioning from player to front office, roles & responsibilities 7:55 – Transfer window and season timeline 10:41 – Access to data and spending rules 14:56 – Recruiting players from around the World 18:26 – The landscape of football in Canada & North America 24:25 – Cavalry FC squad profile 28:18 – Rules around building a roster 31:57 – Networking and working with agents 33:38 – Team culture 35:40 – Trading players for profit, thinking long-term 42:59 – Future thoughts on soccer in Canada 46:24 – Summary and wrap up You can also see more of Chris chatting to analytics professionals over on his podcast too, right here: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisgill_UK

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Episode 40: Richard Battle, Founding Director of Left Field Football Consulting

Episode 40: Richard Battle, Founding Director of Left Field Football Consulting

This week, we spoke to Richard Battle, founding director of Left Field Football Consulting. In the conversation, we talked about the processes of implementing data strategies within football, the imp...

1 Loka 202120min

Episode 39: Peter McKeever, StatsPerform - Visualising Data

Episode 39: Peter McKeever, StatsPerform - Visualising Data

This week, Jon spoke to Peter McKeever, Data analyst at StatsPerform and Data Visualisation Editor for Opta’s new website, The Analyst. In their conversation, they talked about the importance of visu...

9 Elo 202130min

Episode 38: Oliver Gage, Canadian Premier League - Doing Analysis within a League

Episode 38: Oliver Gage, Canadian Premier League - Doing Analysis within a League

This week, Jon spoke to Oliver Gage, the director of football for the Canadian Premier League. Originally from Sheffield, Oliver’s career has carried him to North America via Leeds Met University and...

7 Kesä 202136min

Episode 37: Hugo Schoukens and Jo Van Hoecke, Double Pass - Assessing Academies

Episode 37: Hugo Schoukens and Jo Van Hoecke, Double Pass - Assessing Academies

This week, we spoke to Hugo Schoukens and Jo van Hoecke, the co-founders of Double Pass, a Belgian company that assesses, advises and educates (con)federations, leagues, clubs and individuals on optim...

12 Touko 202135min

Episode 36: Alex Farnell - The Impact of Head Coaches on Performance

Episode 36: Alex Farnell - The Impact of Head Coaches on Performance

This week, we spoke to Alex Farnell, an economics researcher at the University of Lancaster looking into labour markets and issues to do with personnel, specifically using data from professional sport...

1 Huhti 202121min

Episode 35: Tal Brown, Zone7 - How Predictable Are Injuries?

Episode 35: Tal Brown, Zone7 - How Predictable Are Injuries?

This week, Jon spoke to Tal Brown, co-founder and CEO of Zone7. We talked about the problem of predicting injuries in sport, the impact of coronavirus on injury and the future of big data in the sport...

3 Maalis 202126min

Episode 34: Tom Worville - Analytics and the Media

Episode 34: Tom Worville - Analytics and the Media

On the Analytics FC podcast, we’ll be putting out episodes every month with a thematic focus from using data to analyse injuries to quantifying the cognitive aspect of football, from working with agen...

5 Helmi 202134min

Episode 33: Christofer Clemens (German National Team)

Episode 33: Christofer Clemens (German National Team)

Joel and Jeremy are joined by Christofer Clemens, the German national team's head of match analysis and scouting. Tweet us! www.twitter.com/AnalyticsFC Find Joel and Bobby on twitter: Joel www.twitt...

15 Marras 201655min

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