Soccer and mathematics.

Soccer Soccer Sports is a sport that has been enjoyed worldwide for more than a century by both players and spectators. In the early part of the twentieth century, mathematician Harald Bohr, founder of the field of almost periodic functions and brother of famed physicist Niels Bohr, was a skilled player and a silver medalist on the 1908 Danish Olympic soccer team. He was reported to be so popular that his doctoral dissertation defense was attended by more soccer fans than mathematicians. In general, the sport is often cited for its equal emphasis on individual skills and team tactics. As in other sports, statistics are frequently cited by sports commentators. In addition, technically demanding individual actions, as well as masterfully executed plays, can all be described and analyzed using statistics and mathematics, which is done worldwide by numerous sports scientists. One could even say that the players, perhaps unconsciously, use or display “mathematics in motion.”