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0:00Hello internet. This is your captain speaking Lester Narre. Today we have a very special interview episode to end our World Cup coverage. It has been a phenomenal six weeks. We've done several segments covering the intersection of science and the world's beautiful game. And we will be joined by two guests today who are members of FIFA's data science team to discuss one of the new visualizations that has been featured very prominently in the 2026 World Cup match momentum. And over the course of the conversation, we'll get to learn a

0:41little bit more about what does it mean to be a data scientist at FIFA? How does it fit into the larger organization? What is match momentum? How did they come up with it? How do they use all of the complex and different options or data to derive and ultimately get the graphic on our screens as we watch the world's best team compete for the World Cup? And the guests joining us today will be Juan Busouso, who is a senior football data scientist based out of Zurich, Switzerland, alongside Aaron Aur, who is team lead for football performance analysis out of the United

1:24Kingdom. As always, we are going to talk about the science from the ground up today because this is from first principles.

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