Soooo I fell down a rabbit hole on the World Cup tech stack. Noticed the GPS vests teams train in, got curious... turns out there's a LOT going on!
Built a little one page deep dive if anyone is also interested. Fair warning, it's dense.
https://kicktonumber.com
Did you know Verizon can haul something like 7 tbps of match data back to a single building in Dallas?
*Must take cybersecurity hat off. Must take cybersecurity hat off.*
Ultimately I fell into a two day deep dive project and figured others may be interested! Full disclosure, it is AI written/designed, etc. The intent wasn't really to publish something like this, but to learn something. I did try to do a few passes over the language to clean it up and make sure all the sources align but I don't think AI will ever replace human touch with writing.
Like everyone I've been messing with Claude Code and the more "agentic" way of working, and I wanted to see how far it'd go. I started from an OSINT angle. Claude will go HARD! Give it docker, let it spin up a sub-agent per facet... honestly a bit too far. So I pointed it at something more fun: how does FIFA actually track the ball and the players?
Same style of prompting. A subagent per track to chase, etc. At one point I had 70+ agents running in the background collecting data, plus OCR on presentation slides, YouTube transcription, and looping fresh research off whatever the OCR and transcripts turned up.
The result is this writeup. The ball to the radio signals to the processing to whatever ends up on the screen. Learned a ton, about the FIFA stack and about working with Claude, and there's loads more to dig through (webinars, sales decks, papers).
#WorldCup #football #soccer #fifa #tracking #gps #osint #fcc #teardown #technology #gnss #ai
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