Football As Art: Michael Deal brings South Africa 2010 to life
After revealing half of his collaboration in the shape of this, his graphical representation of the group stages in South Africa, we’re very excited to unveil the full visualisation of the tournament. Since the final match, Michael has been working flat out to complete his infographic, and we’re sure that you’ll agree that it’s been worth all the effort! Click on the above image to see a larger version.
Using a simple system of lines, circles and triangles, Michael has detailed the action from every game at this summer’s big tournament, tracing the passes, shots and goals that took us to the final. Using data supplied by stat experts Opta, Michael has crafted something that’s part data source, part piece of art.
To celebrate what has been one of our most popular projects around this summer’s football action, we’re getting Michael’s finished infographic printed up as a very limited edition print. We’ve got 75 of these beautiful images to give away in what will be an extremely limited run, which we’re sure will be very popular! It’s also really simple to get hold of one – just email your name and address to blog@umbro.com under the heading ‘Michael Deal Infographic’ – we’ll pick 75 winners at random to receive this very special memento of the summer’s action.
On 22 Jul 2010, at 5:59 pm Palace Blog » Blog Archive » No Stop – Even More World Cup Post-Match Analysis wrote:
[...] What could be better eh? A combination of top drawer infographic type instant fact visualisation and the entire World Cup. It’s as if someone else had been forced to spend their entire summer watching it alongside me only they had to take notes. Here the very quality Michael Deal has taken all the action from the 64 games and distilled it into a rather nice chart that you could fool people into thinking was something like the chromosomal DNA matrix of football. You can find it on the Umbro blog. [...]
On 22 Jul 2010, at 6:56 pm Mark sponder wrote:
Saw the link on umbro twitter feed. This looks mint!!!!
On 8 Aug 2010, at 9:40 pm barcatizzy wrote:
Dear Aaron, this is nadav from http://www.bestbarcelonafootballtickets.com i have been watching football for years and trying to find graphic representation of the game, yet, it seemed that one thing always escaped me – the very instant of decision that the great players top the rest, the touch of geniality isnt a visual moment its art, inspiration and divine you cant explain it, just enjoy it, enjoy football!
On 21 Jul 2011, at 8:47 am David wrote:
That’s something I hadn’t seen before. I’m not sure how valuable it is to understanding the games but it’s interesting to look at all the same.