IS COMING BACK KAKÁ?

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ORIGINAL SPANISH ARTICLE

http://futbolisticametrica.blogspot.com/2011/10/ha-vuelto-kaka.html

Very often the consideration that fans have of the players is based more on opinion currents whose origins are often the journalists in the reality of what happens in the field. Thus was born this blog.

Very few, perhaps none, will be the football fans to see games 22 times, one Scout to a different player, and not many of us at the end of a match or a series of matches to see statistics to infer changes. But we are all exposed to the debate fueled by the sports press in the same player that he exalts and puts him in the pillory.

THE EXAMPLE OF KAKA

Ricardo has been one of the best players in the last decade. With a great combination of technical and physical, his frank and honest way of getting around the countryside, with its elegant stride, its high top speed with the ball at his feet and his last pass and shoot refined, is perhaps the ultimate example of the football power who triumphed in the second half of the decade of 2000, which became European champion teams like Liverpool or Milan and kept others in the elite like Chelsea or Arsenal.

When he arrived in Spain came with a year behind its sweetest moment and suffering from certain diseases in certain players make an early physical decline. Its high transfer outside the usual market and xenophobia of the Spanish public will almost automatically earned the enmity of rivals and irritating impatience of his own fans.

In the midst of a paradigm shift that was expendable football players like him and with his mind set on the 2010 World Cup, Kaka's performance was not adequate to what is expected of him, in part because they expected too much.

MILAN´S KAKÁ

In this table we have summarized some of the variables that best explain the performance of a position player Kaka: The sum of goals and assists per game, the effectiveness of face-to-door and the computation of shots and fouls, an indicator of assumed prominence.

SEASON	GAMES	GOAL + ASIST / GAME	% EFF.GOAL	+ FOULS SUFF. SHOTS / GAME
2007-08	30.00	0.83	15.6	6.33
2008-09	28.75	0.87	14.5	6.05

The data tell us about a ubiquitous player in the attack on his team, with averages appreciable contribution to team play, especially when you consider playing in a league like the Italian place in those years seldom a team reaches 80 goals . Its effectiveness is typical door of a player with a good hit at long range.

FIRST SEASON IN SPAIN

Looking at his stats in his first season, which earned him the public crucifixion, we see that its performance decreases by 24.7% in goals + assists over his last two years, 24.9% in effectiveness of face-to-door, and his participation in the 12.7% attack. Not bad for a player to reach a league for the first time and passing a primary role secondary to another and suffers physical discomfort.

But 65 million of his transfer was noted in the attacks on the press began to value (and we can say that almost exclusively) less direct and more players combined.

SEASON	GAMES	GOAL + ASIST / GAME	% EFF.GOAL	+ FOULS SUFF. SHOTS / GAME
2009-10	22.00	0.64	11.3	5.18

THE GUESS RENAISSANCE

Here are the statistics Kaka league at its inception. His contribution in goals and assists is again the best levels in Milan, and their effectiveness has increased to gate a significant percentage. But one fact is striking: Your participation in the team's attack has dropped by 32%

SEASON	GAMES	GOAL + ASIST / GAME	% EFF.GOAL	+ FOULS SUFF. SHOTS / GAME
2011-12	4.75	0.84	22.2	4.21

However, before interpreting the statistical variation is necessary to remember you for the last season, one in which is a kind of iconography as unserviceable bag which the mother was always willing to accept an offer unlikely millionaire.

SEASON	GAMES	GOAL + ASIST / GAME	% EFF.GOAL	+ FOULS SUFF. SHOTS / GAME
2010-11	11.75	0.94	26.9	3.32

Certainly these averages were reached in the second half of the season, sometimes in games in which the Madrid played little, not their opponents.

What we see is that the data rebirth announcing that event were present and even magnified last season. It is only logical: After a first season of adaptation, used below show the performance for a player already experienced and completed their learning curve.

PREDICTION

In our historical and statistical sketch Robben A Great Shortcut, We found that on arrival at Bayern Dutchman, who was then still inexperienced enough to be finishing his climb by aprenidizaje curve, increasing their performance continued despite the injury, and that what we interpreted as an indication football maturity.

For Ricardo, a more senior and experienced player, we can observe is that their coach has succeeded despite the discontinuity and its lesser role, render the same level as in his best seasons, thus raising the efficiency joint team. This has been achieved defining their roles in the field, shortening their presence, careful dosing, as did Louis van Gaal with his compatriot.

That first season at Bayern, Robben became a valuable tool that is reserved for parties held more decisive, especially in the Champions League, so that spreads the Bavarians fell in the end, it was fair to recognize that the Dutch had assumed the extra factor that allowed the feat.

In the case of Madrid, Kaka could play a similar role, starring in intermittent but crucial contributions that raise the level of his team need to step that separates him from the securities.