Adriano Bacconi

Adriano Bacconi, a graduate in Sport Sciences from Dijon, is an athletic trainer and professional coach, in this role he recently worked at Inter together with Roberto Mancini, current manager of the Italian national team. • He first created FARM and then DigitalSoccer, the first software for analyzing matches in real time in the 90s, collaborating with technicians of the caliber of Sacchi, Lucescu, Lippi, Tabarez, Houllier, Capello, Ancelotti and many others. He was head of match analysis area of Italy, World Champion at the WC2006. He created IM Coach, a tool based on artificial intelligence to give predictive indications to coaches on the bench. • He is a consultant to Infront Media and Lega Serie A assisting them in the innovation of technological workflows and business models. • He is a well-known television commentator having created and introduced a new data-driver sports language in the most important sports magazines of Rai, the Italian public TV. • He has written books on physical preparation and tactical analysis of matches, as well as having trained many coaches and match analysts according to the method he created called Calcio 4D. This is why he is considered the father of Match Analysis.