, including the sportive phenomenon of the soccer. The experience has shown that the extrapolative or not casual models … accuracy than causal or multivariate models. In this paper, we model and forecast the offensive effectiveness of the soccer … team Sport Lisbon and Benfica, in Portuguese soccer league, by using deterministic methods (linear trend, moving average …

Some Researchers consider soccer matches as the stylization of a war in other battlefields. Such approach was largely … used to interpret the violent phenomena related to the soccer environment, while less attention has been paid to the … the pitch. In our paper we empirically investigate if and how political hostility among countries reverberates on a soccer …

great importance, as it can justify the vast use of MSNE in models. The game between the kicker and goalkeeper in soccer …

This research develops a model of optimal locations for Major League Soccer teams and investigates the important …

Canada’s national soccer team program has met with disappointing results in the qualifying rounds of play in the … recent performances place Canada well down in the FIFA world rankings. Canada has not benefitted from a national soccer … subsequent FIFA world and CONCACAF rankings, by establishing a hypothetical ten-team Tier II soccer league. The model suggests …

A popular soccer myth states that teams affected by a sending-off perform better than they would have performed without … the penalty. Based on economic theory, we analyze the course of soccer matches using data from the German Bundesliga from …

. Nevertheless soccer has already had relation with the secondary market in Spain. In the present work, these experiences are revised … soccer. A series of financial reports is analyzed on the A.S. Rome and the S.S. Lazio between May, 2000 and September, 2001. …

empirically theories of incentives. In this paper the behaviour of the referees in the Italian soccer (football) league (“Serie A …