Christoph Biermann
What if what we think about soccer wasn't true: that despite all the efforts of coaches, managers and players to bring chance under control, it's not uncommon for the wrong team to finish top of the table and the right team to get relegated. If Real Madrid had won the Champions League too often and Pep Guardiola a few times too rarely. What if, after a Bundesliga game, we were to come up with complex theories about opponents we fear or about the run a team is currently on because we don't want to admit how random many results actually are?
Christoph Biermann went in search of coincidence and spoke to coaches, managers, club owners and mathematicians. He discovered some astonishing facts that will change the way we look at soccer.
Christoph Biermann is a sports journalist and author and has worked for taz, ZEIT, Süddeutsche, Stern and SPIEGEL. He has been writing for the soccer magazine 11 Freunde since 2010.
Details:
Date: 19.11.2025
Time: 20:00
Type:
The table always lies
On the power of chance in soccer
Event type:
Geist Heidelberg Lecture
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