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Leicester City have appointed their first Head of Football Analytics, according to Training Ground Guru.

Mladen Sormaz has been appointed to the role which will see him provide data driven insights into performance, recruitment, sports science and medical.

Sormaz, who has previously worked for statistical analysis website Football Whispers as well as holding a part-time role at Huddersfield Town, is the first to be appointed to the position at City, who advertised the opening in November.

The report claims Sormaz will mainly work with the first-team initially, before his remit is expanded upon the opening of the club's new £100m training complex in the summer of 2020.

Sormaz recently presented at the Opta Pro Forum on how tracking data can be used to assess how movement and space create attacking opportunities. You can watch that presentation below.

Speaking to Training Ground Guru about his new position at the King Power Stadium, Sormaz said: “I’m really excited to get going.

"Leicester have a very talented staff and I’m keen to be a part of that expertise and energy. They are willing to invest in the process side of analytics - so not just focusing on what can be done tomorrow, but to build things from the ground up.

“They are ambitious and trying to push the club on to the next level.

“Statsbomb gave me the chance to do my first football analysis blog and then Joe Mulberry ran a hackathon about three years ago, which was the first time I’d really watched football data.

“I’m very grateful to both of them - and to Football Whispers and Huddersfield Town for the opportunities that they’ve given me.”