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    Player Migration and Soccer Performance
    with Santiago Lago-Peñas and Ignacio Lago
    Frontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
    The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between migrating soccer players and the annual ranking of the national teams according to the World Football Elo Rating. The sample includes annual data for 243 countries over the period 1994-2018. Migration is captured with the number of migrating players by country in the ‘big-five’ leagues. The causal relationship between the two variables is examined by using Granger causality test. Four control variables are included: the political regim…Read more
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    Data-Driven Visual Performance Analysis in Soccer: An Exploratory Prototype
    with Alejandro Benito Santos, Roberto Theron, Antonio Losada, and Jaime E. Sampaio
    Frontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.