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MAKE YOURSELF INVISIBLE NEW SALON OPENS IN THE FUTURE CITY: PAGE 4 PUBLICATION COMMISSIONED BY FUTUREEVERYTHING & NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM F. E . N . FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 CITYFICTIONS 2 NEWS THE FUTURE CITY OPENS ITS DOORS A SLICE OF CENTRAL MANCHESTER HAS BEEN ANNEXED BY THE PEOPLE FOR A NEW SOCIAL EXPERIMENT AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGY HUB. FOUR years ago, touches to the people’s festival in 2014, said: and shape the city Mancunians mobilised parliament, which will “It’s incredible what themselves.” to imagine and build can be achieved when Tom Higham, one of a visionary new city, declaration - a universal ordinary people decide the instigators of the which formally opens declaration of urban to change reality. This pop up city, said: to the public tomor- rights. is a city shot through “Everything is family row. Its centre is at New The city includes a with new ideas about friendly and perfectly Century House and the creative quarter and science and technology, safe, although we surrounding buildings factory, and there is a and shaped around the have misplaced a few and public spaces in chance to experience hopes and fears of local autonomous, electronic NOMA, Manchester’s the future of TV (Sat- people. life forms,” adding, 20-acre urban urday only), a factory “The city contains “don’t pet the BUQs.” neighbourhood. showcasing the latest a full series of proto The red ribbon will be fabrication tech- types from the future, City Fictions is in the cut on a new people’s nology (Sunday), and the each one helping us NOMA neighbourhood, parliament, sports arena, launch of a community to speculate about between the National talking street furniture, how things could be, Football Museum, bio-tech kitchen, and make do and mend and to imagine pos- Victoria Railway Station movement. sible futures. Some of and , Hello Everything world that shows only The pop-up urban these ideas would have The Co-operative’s head objects from the seemed fanciful when future rather than dreamed up at the relics from the past. annual digital culture but now they are there The opening weekend TALKING As it opens its gates festival FutureEvery- for us to try out and see. events run Saturday to newcomers on thing. FutureEverything “People are encour- and Sunday only, Saturday and Sunday, director Drew Hemment, aged to roll up their 10am-6pm. visitors will themselves who saw the seed of the sleeves to help lay the LAMP POSTS new city planted at the SO I SAID TO THE LAMP POST, “HAVE YOU GETTING AROUND HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE MUSEUM?” IT may seem like a crazy leave traces of ourselves NATIONAL FOOTBALL idea, nattering with serendipity in the city. on the world that we smart street furniture. - move through every MUSEUM PRESENTS But this weekend, visi- ligence waking up our day,” says Verity McIn- tors to City Fictions will bus stops and city tosh from Watershed WINNING FORMULA be able to chat to a institutions is accessed Drew Hemment from parking meter about its by sending a SMS text FutureEverything adds: THE evolving relation- So it’s no surprise to desires and fears, and message. By simply “Our banter with objects ship between sport see that the National ask the museum what it texting hello and a in the city will become and data is under the Football Museum is thinks about the objects unique code on any a part of the hubbub of spotlight at the National the sports arena at City in the exhibition. object, visitors will be urban living.” You Are Not Here, Nicky Kirk and Mel Woods Football Museum. When Fictions. Drop by to The brains behind the able to start a chat “Hello Everything, they began their football see one of the season’s Hello Everything project, with the object. unveiled at City Fictions, POP UP CITY - data art programme in biggest games, between launching in the New According to the 2014, the museum itself Barcelona and Real City Square tomorrow, developers, PAN Studio: to the emerging LET’S BUILD IT Madrid, as you have believe it will soon “Everything in the city landscape of connected innovation in the sport. never seen it before. become a normal part will become sentient objects and the internet IN a new city square Woods. This is pop-up of our interaction with and have something of things, cleverly people are building a urbanism, setting out to the city. interesting to say. utilising cloud com- temporary monument make city spaces more Smart You Don’t Need The The only thing no one These are objects with munication services to and a local architects liveable. “We are using Government To Say can guarantee is exactly opinions, and that want materials in ways that Citizen what your chosen object to listen. Come prepared scripted user experience the square to create you can scarce imag- The Air Is OK will say in response! to share your own ideas through a series of text a workshop and con- You might stir a grumpy about the future of your message conversa- struction site. John Launching in city.” tions,” says Verity. Leyland said: “We are workers who were there Manchester “The magic of Hello “Visit New City Square fabricating bricks over before us, and skipping at City Fictions post box happy to listen Everything is that it this weekend and head the weekend. Drop by through drawn-out plan- to your darkest secrets, invites us to re-imagine, out across the city, to and see, when we ning,” said Mel. Join a community of people or a street sign wanting to connect with, and to join the conversation.” have enough bricks “What is new is the gathering and sharing data in you can help us build way we have built Manchester. the structure.” While Learn more at the there, visitors can also the architecture, information hub or visit The BioStrike Kitchen smartcitizen.me/manchester help to build a people’s to create pathways futureeverything.org/smartcitizen Genomic Gastronomy parliament out of wood. between moments Elsewhere at City of serendipity.” Fictions, there is a good Many hands are chance the seat you are building City Fictions; Future Mancheter’s new bio-tech food eperience you are sat on, or the to join the city building sign you are reading, workshop visit New Everything is the work of a second City Square on Redfern Conference Opening weekend: group of architects, Street this Saturday and 31 March & 1 April Nicky Kirk and Mel Sunday. The place to imagine and create Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March, 10am-6pm the future city. , City Fictions, Cor- Tickets/Info: poration St, Manchester M60 4ES futureeverything.org PUBLICATION COMMISSIONED BY FUTUREEVERYTHING & NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM 3 CITYFICTIONS FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 F.E.N. WHAT’S ON Visiting CITY GUIDE City Fictions T Century House, Corporation St, Manchester OPENING M60 4ES, and Manchester’s newest city square on Redfern Street. NOMA covers the area between Victoria Railway Station and WEEKEND The Co-Operative HQ on the ring road (A665).

Event Workshop Listings Listings All events run 10am - 6pm, Creative Quarter - Saturday 29 and Family friendly Sunday 30 March workshops

OLD BANK NEW CITY SQUARE / NEW ART SPACES/ NEW CENTURY HOUSE City Fictions, OUTDOOR SPACES FEDERATION HOUSE City Fictions, Hanover St, M4 4AH New City Square, City New Art Spaces/ Corporation St, Fictions, Redfern St, Federation House, M60 4ES Museum next to New Century City Fictions, corner Objects from the House, M60 4ES of Federation St and Media future rather than Balloon St, Manchester BBC CONNECTED relics from the past. Public Realm STUDIO: A half day FUTURES 10: HELLO LAMP EVERY- There’s lots to see event exploring the Wearable devices by THING: Speak with newly and do in the creative future of media Stefanie Posavec, James sentient street furniture quarter, attracting 2pm-5pm, Bridle, Ben Hammersley, and city institutions creative types from Saturday Public Works around the country. Bio-tech Kitchen & Caitlin Morris (Fabrica), SOCIAL CAPITAL: Includes family friendly BIO STRIKE: Francis Bitonti, Alex Box, A construction site and workshops and demos Manufacture a three Peter Gregson, Rohan workshop building a (dates and times vary) course lunch in a petri Gunatillake, Lauren temporary monument dish. Every hour, plus Bowker Data Network New Art Spaces. special events - A HISTORY OF THE BUQS: A swarm of see website for details FUTURE IN 100 autonomous, connected, Creative Quarter Saturday & Sunday OBJECTS: The future electronic lifeforms that FIXPERTS HUB: Bring Tourism create sounds around STORYSTORM: objects the city Collaborate to tell the 5TH DIMENSIONAL 11am-5pm, story of the future city CAMERA: YOU ARE NOT HERE: Saturday & Sunday - On the hour, camera for glimpsing Pathways of discovery see website for details Saturday & Sunday parallel quantum between moments of PUNCHCARD universes serendipity ECONOMY WORKSHOP: Parliament Transform your work PARLIAMENT OF pattern to knitting URBAN RIGHTS: A free- patterns NEW CITY SQUARE / access debating space 10am, 11.30am, OUTDOOR SPACES NEW CENTURY HOUSE for a universal declara- 2pm, 3.30pm New City Square, City City Fictions, tion of urban rights Sunday Fictions, Redfern St, Corporation St, BUQS WORKSHOP: next to New Century M60 4ES Open lab, demos and House, M60 4ES tours with electronic Cafe lifeforms. Parliament DATACAFE: Cafe serving NATIONAL FOOTBALL 11am-5pm, PARLIAMENT OF food, drink, data MUSEUM Saturday & Sunday URBAN RIGHTS: Salon City Fictions, BENJOLIN ANALOGUE Workshop to construct CV DAZZLE ANON Building, Cathedral SYNTH WORKSHOP: a people’s parliament SALON: Free anti- Gardens, M4 3BG Build your own noise 10am-6pm, Saturday surveillance and facial (Saturday 10am-5pm, box. SOLD OUT. recognition hairdressing Sunday 11am-5pm) Factory and makeovers CRITICAL 3D PRINTING: Information Hub Sports Arena 3D printing and 3D PINK SHEET METHOD: WINNING FORMULA: mashups with Golan NATIONAL FOOTBALL Personal data Installation and news- Levin. MUSEUM consultations with art paper from 2018 on the 11am/1pm/3pm, City Fictions, Urbis NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM PRESENTS collective thickear future of data and sport Saturday & Sunday Building, Cathedral PERSONAL MUSEUMS SMART CITIZENS: Learn PERSONAL MUSEUMS: Transport Gardens, M4 3BG about the new data Transforming football COGET: Things Moving Do you have football memorabilia with a story sharing community memorabilia into a People Around Sports Arena to tell? See personal football memorabilia Bio-tech Kitchen miniature cinema 10am/12pm/2pm/4pm, WINNING FORMULA: transformed into a miniature cinema. BIO STRIKE: Saturday & Sunday WORKSHOP: The future

Saturday 29 March - Tuesday 1 April Taste and test in a of data and sport Saturday, Monday, Tuesday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday: 11am - 5pm kitchen bio laboratory Meet the artists: National Football Museum, City Fictions, Urbis Building, Manchester M4 3BG Telecoms 12pm-3pm, NOPAYPHONE: Free HANOVER BASEMENT Saturday call service using , City PERSONAL MUSEUMS City Fictions Museum donated free minutes Fictions, Hanover St, WORKSHOP: Turn Manchester, M60 0AD football memorabilia Objects from the future into a miniature cinema Saturday, 29 March, and Civic Defence Meet the artists: Sunday, 30 March, 10am-6pm ENDLESS WAR: Art 12pm-3pm, Saturday Futures 10 installation of WikiLeaks war reports. A History of the Future in 100 Objects WATCHING THE th 5 Dimensional Camera WATCHERS: Civilian surveillance of Te Old Bank, City Fictions, Hanover Street, Manchester M4 4AH secret military aircraft www.futureeverything.org/festival/art PUBLICATION COMMISSIONED BY FUTUREEVERYTHING & NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM F. E . N . FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 CITYFICTIONS 4 SURVEILLANCE MAKE YOURSELF INVISIBLE A GROUNDBREAKING SALON SPECIALISING IN HELPING PEOPLE EVADE FACIAL RECOGNITION CCTV HAS BEEN OPENED BY CAMOUFLAGE ARTISTE ADAM HARVEY. CV Dazzle Anon Salon is Salon is at the head recognition technology of a groundswell of in everyday CCTV and discontent about billboard cameras. cosmetic makeovers information harvesting Privacy advocates designed to disrupt by governments and claim vociferously that the ability of cameras corporations. Five years people woke up to total to identify who we are. ago came dramatic surveillance, and that Beginning life as an art revelations about the authorities poke into our project, CV Dazzle is fast extent of government private lives uninvited. becoming a global anti- surveillance by former Even businesses can surveillance brand and National Security monitor individuals for is the poster child for a Agency employee- commercial gain without movement that is using turned-whistleblower informed consent, ingenuity to help people Edward Snowden. The but governments and opt out of the surveil- following year activists corporations both lance society. lifted the lid on wide- have been deaf to Styling make-up and spread use of facial their protest. hair in a certain way recognition software The salon name pays makes people ‘invisible’ combined with CCTV. tribute to a First World to street and online The shockwaves surveillance. The stylists were profound. Even called dazzle, which in the salon use cubist- people who delete their involved contrasting inspired hairstyling and digital selves can be geometric patterns makeup to disguise key detected simply by painted on battleships features and ‘break the walking through a to disguise their orienta- continuity’ of the face. public place. There tion, speed and size. “Since facial-recogni- was no longer an opt CV Dazzle Anon Salon tion algorithms rely on out from always-on uses fashion and styling surveillance. to preserve our intimacy spatial relationship of Four years later and and dignity in public key facial features, like the American intel- places, advocates claim. symmetry and tonal ligence community is “People need to stand contours, one can block about to conclude its up and be counted. detection by creating an controversial Janus Thanks to Adam Harvey ‘anti-face’,” said Harvey programme, which will about his designs. radically expand the boutique, we can look CV Dazzle Anon use of high-spec facial good while we do it.” Adam Harvey / cvdazzle.com VISUAL ARTS

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Anti-NIS Accessories: Caitlin Morris and Lisa Kori Chung / FABRICA. Photos: Marco Zanin CCTV TWITCH DESIGNER James Bridle a signal, it pulses elec- STAY OUT THE contents of our range of accessories. Anti-NIS Accessories has created a device tric current through minds can be inter- When a scan is de- Rather than simply which alerts the wearer a pair of transcutane- OF MY cepted and monitored tected, the accessories blocking access to the and privacy of emotion, to any CCTV cameras ous electrical nerve using neuro-imaging provoke a reaction that brain, which would intelligence, and other pointed at them. Worn stimulation (TENS) pads MIND surveillance technol- will demand the wearer’s require unsubtle and brain data. on the shoulder, the attached to the wearer’s ogy, according to Italian attention, changing their complex equipment, Surveillance Spaulder shoulder, causing them design agency Fabrica. current brain activity each piece proposes a On display in Futures 10, detects infrared to twitch sharply. On And they say help is at method of momentary at City Fictions Museum. lighting emitted by display in Futures 10, at hand with the Anti-NIS moment of privacy cognitive diversion. CCTV. When it receives City Fictions Museum.

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The last Champions League encounters with Barcelona ended in defeat for Manchester City.

CL showdown pits digital smarts against old school nous

By Shirley Olderman—Manchester beautiful game— has increasingly leveled ings of the entire technical staf and sub- ed play versus the drilled but attractive old by rank-and fle supporters glad to have sequent resignation of Roberto Martinez, school approach of the blaugrana which Walking toward the tunnel at Old Traford the wins, but bored to tears by the occa- put enormous pressure on de Boer to has also yielded an undefeated record in at the fnal whistle last Saturday, Frank sionally incomprehensible technical play both prove his own value as incoming La Liga and the Champion’s League thus de Boer’s was the face of a man feeling of the side. Where de Boer once was an manager, and at the same time, deliver far. Marca has derisively labelled the com- vindicated. After an uninspiring end to acolyte of attractive totaalvoetbal, three on the unprecedented commercial part- ing semifnal tie “Men vs. the Machine,” last season, his is a ship that increasingly months spent in Qatar at brother Ronald’s nership that many traditionalists say is a casting Xavi’s men in the role of England’s looks not only righted, but one charging new programme at Q-Scale’s new Sport bridge too far for a game already troubled 19th century Luddite uprising of loom- into the wind at full sail, at least on paper. Institute in Doha seems to have changed by accusations it has lost contact with its busters who fought—unsuccessfully—in- And yet, when his undefeated Manches- his approach entirely. As the head of City’s roots in England. dustrialization of the country’s mills, add- ter City host Barcelona tonight at the City main supporter group Mark Porter re- ing “this time the fght is for something of Stadium, it’s the Dutchman who may feel cently put it, “Winning pretty or winning The Catalan Restoration ultimate importance: the preservation of under the most pressure, despite looking ugly—both are fne, but winning soulless- By contrast, Barcelona’s resurrection football as we’ve known it for over a cen- superior on paper against his old Catalan ly isn’t a good strategy for the long-term.” under Xavi after three dismal seasons by tury. Tis time, the counter-revolutionar- side, itself in the midst of a revamp. While de Boer needs to play along to local standards—fnishing fourth, third ies must fnish the job” Having satisfed hardcore fans by bring returns on the big investment his and just being pipped to the post last sea- completing the double over United—and paymasters at City have made in the con- son by Valencia—is being credited to the Culture Clash or Turning Point? early in the season due to an odd fxture troversial overhaul, his comments to jour- restoration he has led on the feld and on Marca’s rhetoric, while meant to pro- calendar—he heads into the semifnal nalists over the past month suggest a man the training pitch. Xavi’s return to a Guar- voke at the expense of City (remember, against a fghting ft Barcelona tonight with something to prove. Te implications diola-esque tiki-taka, with the relentless industrialization of the mills started Man- with something to prove: that he isn’t just of his complaints, frst caught by a hot mic pressing and fowing movement, has put chester), it’s not wholly an overstatement the front-man for City’s new owners, the from BBC, are that his pride is taking a bit some beauty back into the side’s perfor- to suggest tomorrow’s match is signifcant richly funded Gulf quantum computing of a beating as tactical and selection de- mances, and is bringing supporters back as a metaphorical turning point in mod- startup Q-Scale and their bootroom lab cisions for the Sky Blues are rigidly doled to the Camp Nou even as City fans are ern management. De Boer’s success at for experimental tactics that puts silicon out from the ffteen-person “data squad” turning away from their team’s mechani- turning an ailing Spurs around in short before good old fashioned nous. Tis ac- put in place following the controversial cal performances. order through his defensive but efective cusation—that he is only a sockpuppet sale of the team by Sheik Mansour to its All of which sets the table for an entic- style of play has been copied to some suc- for a supercomputer and a new breed new owners last December. ing match tomorrow night—City’s unusu- cess by acolytes and wannabes alike in the of bootroom bofns with no feel for the Tat decision, which led to the sack- al, seemingly random, computer-generat- past three seasons.

FICTIONAL REPORT FROM 2018 AS PART OF WINNING FORMULA AT THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM PUBLICATION COMMISSIONED BY FUTUREEVERYTHING & NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM F. E . N . FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 “Quotables” SPORT CITYFICTIONS 6 We should give serious thought to ______“It would save a lot of simulating trouble with fixture congestion and open new revenue the first 4 opportunities.” rounds of national and league cups.

UEFA competitions committee head Peter Glauser, one week before being relieved of his position.

Jon Snyder PUBLICATION COMMISSIONED BY FUTUREEVERYTHING & NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM 7 CITYFICTIONS SPORT FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 F.E.N. Bumpy road to Moscow may not stop there.

By Frank Cox—St Petersburg Denmark manager Dennis Romme- a lead balloon among potential travelers, dahl has gone on the record protesting with recent polling indicating up to 55% While there are no true Groups of Death that one of the possible sides that may be of those planning to attend matches from coming out of the draw just before Christ- moved to a diferent group, potentially Image #829342394 outside Russia are reconsidering their mas this past winter, the road to a Moscow shifting from Group F, where it faces the Image not available #829342394 in your country travel plans. fnal for the 32 teams competing in the up- Netherlands, Mexico and Peru, to Group not available in your country However, some of the major interna- coming World Cup in Russia in barely two G, where it would fll the spot left by the tional package travel groups licensed to months’ time may feel a bit harsh none- US team alongside Spain, Egypt and bring European football tourists to the theless. Another summer of fres forecast South Korea. Group F would get Canada, host cities don’t seem to have digested for Western Russia combined with poor the side that would replace the US, in this news, as none have so far ofered any road conditions, brewing confict with Denmark’s place, extending the impact kind of formal refund program to those Russia’s southern neighbors, and tight- to eight national teams’ already well into who have already invested thousands in ening security building on lessons learnt their tactical planning against sides they groups from traveling outside of their match tickets, hotels and airfare. Treats from incidents in Brazil and again during were selected to face in December’s draw. home regions or crossing cordons sani of no-shows and ranks of empty seats will the Confederations Cup have combined Add to this issues with the possible nam- taires, similar to those employed recently not look good for the Russia 2018 com- to provoke trepidatious comments from ing of North Korean defector Ri Song- by the US government on its southern mittee, but it also doesn’t seem like the several national associations. Add to this Hyuk in South Korea’s side for the fnals, border and by the Chinese government in policy will be rolled back or even softened the possible pullout of the United States in and the political heat is already rising well its west to limit movement of immigrant to permit personal mobile devices as sev- protest over rolling cyberattacks, and the ahead of Russia’s summer. or separatist groups. Surveillance drones eral devices makers, including key sponsor mood is darkening even before the frst International objections to the will also have access to the ONYX data, Xaomi, have requested. ball is kicked in anger. new biometric data security regimes that enabling aerial identifcation and tracking Tings may yet cool among between the Te upset caused by the threatened US will be put in place for domestic and of visitors and locals alike. FIFA has been US and Russia, as might the weather, but boycott over what it alleges is cyber-espi- cross-border travel within and into Rus- largely silent on the increased security, the travel issues may still cast a shadow on onage from Russia that shut down major sia are also emerging. Te ONYX system, except to reiterate its position that local the Finals. Tis hasn’t pleased Qatar 2022 power generation facilities in New Eng- which has been in use internally within host committees have the right to imple- organizers, who had hoped to put simi- land, Texas and Washington State in Janu- Russia among districts west of the Urals ment security they see ft. lar restrictions and border protections in ary and February has rippled through but will now be used at the international Despite all of these issues, the straw place. Tey also won’t want to have to deal preparations. Te boycott threat has al- borders as well, has been criticized by pri- that breaks the camel’s back may be the with any dent in future attendance that is- ready created signifcant issues among vacy groups for requiring full body scans blanket ban on international attendees sues this summer might propel into 2022. the groups that would be afected as FIFA and DNA samples to be kept on fle by the bringing personal communication and Both Russia and Qatar have promised a look at ways to replace the US team in case government. computing devices into the country, be- return to the beautiful game after accu- negotiations to forestall it fail. Te Russian Te host country has also been tar- ginning in May. Even though World Cup sations of crass over-commercialization government have denied involvement in geted by human rights groups for what organizing authorities have promised to in Brazil four years ago. It looks like their the cyber-attacks, though the US claims it they have alleged is use of biometric sys- make temporary devices available at rea- jobs are getting harder, not easier, and the has evidence to support its protests. tems like ONYX to prevent certain ethnic sonable costs, the ban has gone down like football fan’s experience may sufer for it. FICTIONAL REPORT FROM 2018 AS PART OF WINNING FORMULA AT THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM

PUBLICATION COMMISSIONED BY FUTUREEVERYTHING & NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM F. E . N . FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 More News SPORT CITYFICTIONS 8 New data doping case Roger Zuta, is being acussed of tampering rocks the MSL with player data. Fierce competition between talent agents spurs questionable tactics.

AP—Toronto vided by Zuta, supposedly from Eleven, were intentionally doctored. Te data doping case that rocked Major “We shouldn’t have trusted Roger” Soccer League last summer when it frst Fayard said. “He in efect juked the stats emerged now doesn’t seem to want to end. of the players he represented. Mediocre Te Montreal Athletic, one of MSL’s four midfelders who hadn’t shown marked Canadian teams, and the league ofce improvement during their past years of have now fled a joint complaint against training suddenly became undiscovered Roger Zuta, the Switzerland-based agent prodigies with exciting performance fore- of fve young Bulgaria-based players who casts, and it was those forecasts which Jim Merithew joined Montreal’s youth teams last sum- attracted us to do a transfer deal with standing of actual data doping techniques increasing number of data doping cases, mer, based on new evidence refuting Zu- Eleven. Missing contradictory data, my seems rudimentary, according to Santos. encouraging game and training data pro- ta’s claims of accidental data corruption. staf took Zuta and Eleven’s certifcation According to the investigation’s interim viders to improve the security and integ- According to the Impact’s Sporting of the data at face value, and then did report, “Zuta appears to have worked rity of their systems, and to adopt fraud Director, Jean-Raymond Fayard, a just not perform the necessary sanity checks. with an unidentifed third party to care- detection algorithms much like those used completed review of forensically recov- Nonetheless, we believe there has been fully boost only some of his clients’ per- by banks to determine unusual behavioral ered data logs kept on the fve Bulgarians a criminal act of data fabrication here. I formance histories, and then only subtly, shifts that help fag fraud. Te few cases while they were at Spartak Eleven’s acad- wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t the tip and only within certain areas, such as already uncovered involve organized net- emy from 2015-2016, before they came of the iceberg.” lactate thresholds, so-called cardiovas- works of sports performance analysts, under Zuta’s management, shows a dif- Current investigation also revealed cular drift and visual acuity. We know, agents and players, making them harder ferent training trajectory for all fve play- links regarding somewhat sophisticated however, that these players’ newly un- to detect, but easier to unwind once sus- ers prior to Zuta representing them. Im- data fabrication methods in Roger Zuta’s covered youth baselines would have been pected. pact’s ofcial data provider released new browsing history, also uncovered during nearly impossible to improve so quickly, Still, Jean-Raymond Fayard is hoping models that prove that it is impossible for the forensic investigation. “Roger Zuta and the Ivoirans’ data in particular didn’t that this example will help restore bal- players so young and otherwise unsup- was a reference to represent Eastern Eu- match norms suggested by their previous ance between agents and small clubs in- ported through training and nutrition to ropean football talents. But the new com- climate conditioning but looked more sufciently educated to the use of data. have such a change in physiological and petition between agents pushed him to like the Bulgarian data. We also know that FIFA has already announced the launch performance characteristics simply based cross the line” said Javier-Prieto Santos, such selective doctoring and errors are of a program that will aim to develop the on a new training regime, as Zuta has former CONCACAF head of data man- highly unlikely to be the result of techni- awareness of these digital issues, and is claimed. Instead, says Fayard, the newly agement who led the investigation at the cal problems with data collection, as was holding meeting on the possibility of es- surfaced data, along with earlier informa- request of the MSL. suggested. All of the numbers would have tablishing a formal Data Integrity Unit. A tion on at least three of the players from Indeed, Roger Zuta doesn’t ft the been afected. Tis took skill outside of decision on this is expected at FIFA’s win- their original youth clubs in Ivory Coast, hacker’s profle. Coming from a well es- Zuta’s known capacity.” ter meeting in December.. proves that the more recent statistics pro- tablished frm of sport agents, his under- A recent FIFA report remarked the

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