Premier League football team Manchester United only recently appointed Louis van Gaal as the club’s new manager, and already he has a couple of tech tricks up his sleeve. Under van Gaal, the club is using about R9 million ($840 000) in camera equipment to track players while on the pitch.
The high-tech camera system has been installed at their Carrington training ground, and allows van Gaal to see where the players should be, how they place themselves and if they should be making any improvements.
“We have this system at the minute where he can watch us on the pitch. A lot of teams use it but we are looking into it in quite a lot of detail. He is saying ‘you should be five yards to the right’, we are able to see things that are happening live on the pitch,” Manchester United defender Jonny Evans explained to ESPN.
As the team gears up for a tour to the US, the team is also taking a look at the footage during games. “That kind of scrutiny is new to every single player. The case before was that as long as we got the results everything was fine. David Moyes would have looked at videos a lot so we got a bit of that from last year. [Now] we are looking at things in detail,” Evans added.
While the total set-up is rumoured to have cost R9 million, it is still unclear exactly what type of cameras have been purchased.
