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Chris Anderson


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Germany
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Nonfiction, Sports


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A pioneer of soccer analytics, Chris Anderson is the author of “The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong“, and Managing Partner of Anderson Sally LLC. A sought-after soccer industry advisor, Chris’s work focuses on using rigorous and appropriate analysis to acquire, manage, and build and sustain clubs in the context of global competition for talent and success. Before co-founding Anderson Sally, Chris was a professor at Cornell University; he has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Stanford, and the LSE, and has s taught management strategy at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of M ...more

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“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.”
― Chris Anderson, The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
tags: beheading, chosen, democracy, great-men, leaders, liberty, soccer, the-french, voltaire
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“So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself”
― Chris Anderson, The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong
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“Games like the Football Manager series have reduced what was once seen as a special skill possessed only by a few to little more than an algorithm for success.”
― Chris Anderson, The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
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