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Sportshour: Football's new e-scout?

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18/08/2018 GMT

Football's new e-scout?

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Football's new e-scout?

Can an App for youth footballers change the scouting industry?

Football's e-scout 
Becoming a professional footballer is a dream shared by many children across the globe, but very few ever see that ambition become a reality. Of the 1.5 million boys who play organised youth football in England, only around 180 make it to the top level playing in the Premier League. Well two football-mad Danes decided they wanted to change this. Peter Holm and Simon Hjaere created Tonsser - an App that allows young players to create their own profile, upload videos and stats from their games and share this information with teammates and scouts hunting for the next star. 

From court room to cricket pitch
Ben Stokes' skills as both batsmn and bowler, have made him one of the highest earners in the lucrative Indian Premier League.  He's one of the most recognisible figures in the game. 
But he missed England's win over India in the second Test win at Lords while in court facing a charge of affray.  Stokes was found not guilty on Tuesday, and shortly afterwards was named in the squad for the third Test which gets underway in the next hour at Trent Bridge in Nottingham -- but will he play? Should he play?


The fastest donkeys in the west  
In Colorado in the United States thousands of spectators have been converging on small rural communities for Burro Racing season.  The sport, where runners teamed with donkeys, or burros, compete over a course of tracks and rough terrain commemorates the gold mining history of the state, and helps to keep the communities alive.  


Hakas, heritage and rugby 
The Haka is as much a part of the New Zealand rugby team as the famous all black kit.  
It's been performed by the team before matches for more than a century.  But it's been suggested by some in the game, that the Haka, as far as rugby is concerned, has lost its mystique and has become commercialised.
So what does the Haka signify and why has it become synonymous with the All Blacks?



Faithfully supporting Wolves in China 
The Chinese band Miserable Faith began supporting the English Premier League football team Wolverhampton Wanderers while on tour in Britain.  Now they've written a song in tribute to the team, which has become a hit in China.


Sprinting's new star 
It's been a break-through season for the British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith.  At the European athletics championships in Berlin earlier this month she won three gold medals -- the first woman in 28 years to achieve the feat.  She talks to Sportshour as she prepares to take on the world's best in the Diamond League meeting on home soil in Birmingham.

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