Research On The Football Competition Intelligence Theory And Illustration

In recent years, our football teams of all levels have got defeated in the international arena.Besides our inferior skills, the main reason for the failure is that we did not carry out theintelligence work and did not know the opponents well.Therefore, in order to improve the competitive score of our high level teams in internationalfields, this paper carries out an intelligence research and forms a complete set of footballcompetition intelligence theory and effective methods and processes, so as to serve the study ofopponents and winning of the game.Supported by the theory of information science, the research, with the method of field work,interview, literature, comparison, questionnaire, case analysis, mathematical statistics and logicanalysis method, carries out a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the intelligence situationof the high level football teams in China. The main findings and conclusions are as follows：Ⅰ Theoretical conclusions(1) Based on the intelligence theory of related fields, this paper makes a preliminary constructionof athletic competition intelligence theory system. It shall include the basic concept, function, thecompetition information’s content and the information system construction, etc.(2)Football competition intelligence theory is based on the theory of information science,affiliated to the category of information science, and belongs to the subordinate concept of sportsintelligence and competitive intelligence. Football competition intelligence takes the team as themain body and the competition intelligence as the research object, which coincides with its owninherent intelligence and the direction of information science development. Sports competitionintelligence represents the new direction of the development of information science research and itwill become the core field of the scientific research of sports information.(3)Theoretically speaking, football competition information includes the preparations for the game,opponents, competition environment, competition strategy and the competitive intelligence etc.(4)Sports competition intelligence is based on the theory of competitive intelligence system.According to the process of competitive intelligence, the whole competition intelligence systemcan be divided into three parts: the subsystem of competition intelligence collection, thesubsystem competition information analysis and the subsystem competition intelligence service.Ⅱ Empirical conclusions(1)The current situation of China’s football competition intelligence work is as follows:①In the2011season, the following rules exist in our high level football teams’ intelligence work:there is high consistency of football game analysis software in our high level football clubs withthe intelligence personnel. The current ratio of football analysis software and professionalintelligence staffing takes on the following phenomenon: national teams>Chinese super footballteams>Chinese division2teams>Chinese division3teams, the men’s teams,>women’s teams.There is a positive correlation between the use of match analysis software and clubs scores. It isnoted that clubs with intelligence personnel and professional football match analysis softwaremostly have teams coached by foreigners.②Most coaches of our high level football teams are not very satisfied with the current intelligencework in the team. They affirm its importance in the preparation for the game and hold a positiveview about having professional intelligence personnel.③The football competition information can be acquired by recording the game on the television, watching on spot or shooting opponents ‘recent games and downloading game videos from theInternet. The use of the third party as an agent is still in the embryonic stage in China.④The three important sources of competition information are TV game, the game live and theinternet.⑤Currently, the information analysis of high level teams is handed directly to coach, who thenassigns the person to manually edit with the aid of computer software paid proxy’s processingmethod by third party agencies is very rarely used in China, except the Chinese men’s nationalteam.⑥In the work of pre-season competition intelligence, the appropriate length of time to watch thevideo clips is within20minutes.⑵The football competition information that our high level teams need to collect pre-seasonincludes opponents, environment, our own team information and referees.①The team’s competition information mainly includes the players’physiological fitness index andphysical status, mental state, injuries and suspensions, and training and tactical data and so on.②The opponents’information that our high level football team coaches expect to getpre-season mainly includes the game’s tactics data and video, the game formation and players, themain offensive and defensive tactics, characteristics of set pieces, core members of the opponents,the coach’s habits and characteristics of lineup and touchline instructions, the influence of thecompetition on its score, the opponent’s strength and style, and recent going-on such as thewarm-up match etc.③Competition environment information shall consist of the match location, climate, facilities,transportation, accommodation and athletic atmosphere of audience, local cultural practices andother factors.④The referee’s information contains the professional penalty habits and characteristics, theirliving area, cultural, political background and the game result’s influence on referees.⑤)At present, there are only30%of high-level football teams that carry out anti-competitionintelligence before games.The teams’ anti-competition intelligence methods frequently used are as follows: pregame closedtraining, pregame public training, wearing numberless jerseys in warming-up, conceal the coreand threatening players.(3)At present, the overall situation of using software to serve the football competition intelligenceis far from satisfactory. Teams equipped with professional football software accounts for onlyabout1/10of the national high level teams.⑷The followings are the main reasons that restrict our competition intelligence’s progress in highlevel teams. Teams and the club decision-makers don’t pay enough attention; financial investmentis not adequate; professional intelligence personnel and technical equipment are insufficient; thereis a lack of adequate information sources; the methods of information gathering are single andbackward; there is short of special training of the professional football intelligence; intelligencestaff don’t have enough awareness and knowledge.(5) In order to improve and further strengthen football competition intelligence work of high levelteams, the following main countermeasures and suggestions should be taken. Footballmanagement departments and clubs should increase the attention to the competition intelligence;national football management departments and clubs should bolster spending of manpower, andmaterial resources investment; we should learn advanced concepts, techniques and methods from foreign football powers; information systems and databases of domestic football competitionshould be built, the sources of intelligence information should be expanded; special training onfootball competition intelligence should be conducted; sports institutions and organizations shouldvigorously carry out the cultivation and training of full-time intelligence staffs; advanced footballanalysis system software should be introduced.