I big data nel calcio, tra volontà previsionale e nuove forme narrative

The paper aims to explore the new methods of production, collection and analysis of large amounts of data in sport – and football, in particular – through innovative technologies for measuring and monitoring the body and the various features of individual or group performance. It is one of several fields in which statis- tical analysis, machine learning, automation, artificial intelligence, algorithm construction assume a concrete effect. All this raises differ- ent sociologically relevant questions, such as, for example: the increas- ing importance of the correlation between phenomena at the expenses of the explanation of their causes; the ideological factors of datafication and the quantified self; the problems of surveillance and regulation of the athlete related to quantitative and statistical measurement; the reduction of the processual factors of reality to data and information; the transformation of the story and the shared sense of reality.