Players

If you use these data cite the following paper: <br><br>- Pappalardo et al., (2019) <b>A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions</b>, Nature Scientific Data 6:236, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0247-7<br><br>This dataset describes all players of the teams playing in seven national and international soccer competitions (Italian, Spanish, French, German, English first divisions, World Cup 2018, European Cup 2016). Each competition consists of the following fields:<br>- <b>birthArea</b>: geographic information about the player's birth area;<br>- <b>birthDate</b>: the birth date of the player, in the format "YYYY-MM-DD";<br>- <b>currentNationalTeamId</b>: the identifier of the national team where the players currently plays;<br>- <b>currentTeamId</b>: the identifier of the team where the player plays for. The identifier refers to the field "wyId" in a team document;<br>- <b>firstName</b>: the first name of the player;<br>- <b>lastName</b>: the last name of the player;<br>- <b>foot</b>: the preferred foot of the player;<br>- <b>height</b>: the height of the player (in centimeters);<br>- <b>middleName</b>: the middle name (if any) of the player;<br>- <b>passportArea</b>: the geographic area associated with the player's current passport;<br>- <b>role</b>: the main role of the player. It is a subdocument containing the role's name and two abbreviations of it;<br>- <b>shortName2</b>: the short name of the player;<br>- <b>weight</b>: the weight of the player (in kilograms);<br>- <b>wyId</b>: the identifier of the player, assigned by Wyscout.<br>