England men’s captain Harry Kane believes artificial intelligence (AI) could be the future of injury prevention in football, lamenting the fact that many key players will miss this year’s Women’s World Cup. .
England won the Women’s European Championship on home soil last year, but will be without stars such as former captain Leah Williamson and 2021-22 Women’s Player of the Year Beth Mead, who will play in Australia and New Zealand from July. come to
Other leading contenders, including Olympic champions Canada and defending champions the United States, would also be exhausted.
“It’s really disappointing to see some women go down with injuries like this and big ones,” Kane told Reuters.
The Tottenham Hotspur striker on Thursday announced an investment in AI-driven fitness tech startup OxeFit, believing in the power of real-time data to prevent unnecessary injuries.
“Injury prevention is the most important thing for me,” Kane said. Former Ice Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky is also one of OxFit’s newest investors.
“It just keeps getting better and better with the help of AI.
Kane pointed to OxeFit technology’s ability to detect, with real-time feedback, when athletes may be giving one team an advantage over the other.
“We have a bit of a problem on the left or right side, so we need to level it out because playing game after game is probably just affecting the weaker side more.” he said. He said.
With calls for more research into the prevalence of injuries in women’s games, the 29-year-old Kane, who helped England reach the quarter-finals of last year’s World Cup, has great potential for his country’s women’s side to move the sport forward. Forward looking to have sex.
FA President Debbie Hewitt recently floated the idea of running to host the Women’s World Cup in 2031.
“(We were) lucky to have the European Championship last year and we were able to go there and watch the final at Wembley and see them win and how much it meant for the country. I get it, the country is way behind them and they have thousands of fans watching,” Kane said.
“European Championships are great, but the pinnacle of football is the World Cup.”
